Places Vaniux Wants to Go

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

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The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.

A gothic-styled structure that has been the location for several movies.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.