Places Braecrest Wants to Go

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

A tiny church remembers the Polish cavalrymen who charged their way into a Napoleonic victory.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

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

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Britain's only herd of free-ranging reindeer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

The ruins of Scottish sea salt production.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

Though nicknamed the “Russian Freighter,” this ship was actually sunk off the coast of Pensacola by the U.S. government in a top-secret operation.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

This tiny island is home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets.