Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A remnant from the golden age of aviation still in use today, Pan Am's Clipper service took off from this Art Deco gem.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

Could this grave be the true resting place of legendary gunfighter "Doc" Holliday? Unclear.

A stone plaque and a winking pub name are all that remain to remember the victims of deadly 1836 avalanche.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.