Places andyhartsmith Wants to Go

An ancient healing font dedicated to an 11th-century matriarch was moved to make way for progress.

One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

The first and only troll museum in Norway has interactive exhibits, friendly staff and a small gift shop.

Experience the pivotal Civil War battle at this interactive museum.

Feel what it would have been like to live in Gettysburg during the pivotal Civil War battle.

The legendary wooden horse that stands in modern Troy is a prop from the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen film.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

Historic bar where the Singapore Sling cocktail was invented.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

An eclectic Buddhist temple packed with pop-culture icons.

Before construction of the famous Tintagel Castle, this site in Cornwall was likely a prosperous Dark Age trading port.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

A museum dedicated to the stories and folklore of Småland, Sweden.

Did a Halloween gathering at this site kick off Scotland’s witch trials?

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

A remembrance of the local Scottish victims of the Lockerbie Bombing Incident in the now-restored neighborhood.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

This stately Georgetown rowhouse was once the home of a 54-year-old diplomat and his 16-year-old bride.

Scary stories haunt this wooden bridge.