Places tomod05 Wants to Go

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

One of the most extreme deserts in the world, these snow-free valleys harbor life, despite the hostile environment.

Scientists use one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth as a terrestrial base for studying water on Mars.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A desert that evokes the surreal.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

Some locals believe the fabled lost gold of General Yamashida is hiding somewhere beneath the city.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.