Places semken Wants to Go

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

Meat and seafood are part of the frozen dessert flavors available at these legendary street stands.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

This museum preserves the heyday of Puerto Rican coffee.

The last water-powered beam pumping engine in Britain.

Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.

This "sausage route" features gorgeous views and family-owned restaurants.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

A natural swimming pool in the middle of the Carite Forest.

The highest bridge in Myanmar was once the tallest railway bridge in the world.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.