Riomaggiore, Italy
Via dell’Amore
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Riomaggiore, Italy
A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.
DeFuniak Springs, Florida
The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.
Keystone, South Dakota
The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."
Foster, Rhode Island
As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.
Salisbury, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.
Bellefontaine, Ohio
In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.
Keene Valley, New York
The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.
Wantage, New Jersey
The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.
Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.
Adams, Massachusetts
Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.
Millinocket, Maine
The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.
Weskan, Kansas
A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.
Sibley, Iowa
The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.
Hilo, Hawaii
Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.
Brussels, Belgium
This cannonball has been lodged in the church wall since a 1695 bombardment destroyed the city center.
Birmingham, England
This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Naarden, Netherlands
The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.
Prague, Czechia
The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.
McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.
Wahiawa, Hawaii
This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.
London, England
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.