Places SeeingCoolPlaces Wants to Go

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

The world’s largest stone statue of Luther looms over a North Carolina campus.

Czechoslovakia’s first competition pool, now a decaying ruin of a functionalist marvel.

One of the two original gateways into the Kasbah, this gateway is a nesting site for storks.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.

This former community granary is now a lonely mountaintop shrine.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

These egg-shaped buildings constructed by Jesuits house a quaint museum in the Andes.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

A World War I German experimental concrete plant, hidden deep in a French forest.

The former home of the five-time Socialist Party nominee is now a museum dedicated to his career.

The beehive-like buildings of this abandoned resort reside near the border of Mauritania and Senegal.

The largest camel market in West Africa

This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.

On a secluded beach is one of the few shipwrecks left on the shores of Mauritania.

A 19th-century architectural masterpiece with ties to Gustave Eiffel.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Unopened beer cans are left at this monument to honor the Navy men who lost their lives during a training mission.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.