Places scoutboy Wants to Go

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

The world's spiciest ice cream comes from Glasgow.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

An abandoned airport in the middle of nowhere.

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.