Places aekime Wants to Go

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.