Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia
The Rosewell Plantation Ruins
This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia
This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.
Paris, France
In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Kaleüçağız Köyü, Turkey
Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.
Reims, France
Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.
Ajaccio, France
Napoleon's childhood home is now open for people to explore the beginnings of France's short general.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.
Kayenta, Arizona
Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.
Royal National Park, Australia
A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.
Tacoma, Washington
"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."
Berlin, Germany
From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.
Chicago, Illinois
All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.
Paradise, Michigan
This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Madrid, Spain
The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.
New Haven, Connecticut
While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Brussels, Belgium
Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.
Oakland, California
The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.
Kenya
Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”
Nairobi, Kenya
Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.