Places worshamrob Wants to Go

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

This beautiful site is where the first transatlantic telegraph was sent from.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.