Places Ala Pardyl Wants to Go

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

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

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

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

A rare example of a medieval house in Rome adorned with a melancholic inscription.

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.