Places semken Wants to Go

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

This suburban house is made of dirt, and almost sparked a revolution in home construction.

Proto-CIA agents trained with grenades in the sand traps and fired machine guns from the fairways.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

A unique collection of more than 250 rocks and minerals located on a university campus.

This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Philippine art and culture are on display at this university museum.

The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.