Places Wanderer 2202 Wants to Go

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

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

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

One of only two places in the world where two rivers cross each other without the waters mixing.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.