Places Wafflemaster135 Wants to Go

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.