Places beaumack Wants to Go

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

The skyline of Montreal includes the silhouette of an unexpected fruit-shaped Canadian staple.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

This restored 19th-century calender, a machine used in rubber manufacturing, commemorates the town's local industry.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.