Places tomwickland Wants to Go

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

This small, round building is the entrance to a bomb shelter built in anticipation of World War II.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

Stroll past dozens of intricately-detailed scale replicas of buildings from all over Czechia.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

A rare chance to enter an original gold mine from the 1800s.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

This river island in Sierra Leone is home to impressive biodiversity and the country's first community conservation program.

The birthplace of modern China.

This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.