Marfa, Texas
Marfa Lights
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Gilroy, California
Gilroy Gardens
Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.
Key West, Florida
Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Mexico
Toniná
The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.
Stockholm, Sweden
Vasa Museum
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
San Francisco, California
The Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
Benson, Arizona
The Thing
What is the Thing?
Key West, Florida
Hemingway's Last Penny
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Permanently Closed
Inverness, Scotland
Ship Space
The Titanic sails again in one Scotland man's backyard.
Culberson County, Texas
Guadalupe Peak
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
Cusco, Peru
Sacsayhuamán
The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.
Costa Rica
Río Celeste
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
