Places andyhartsmith Wants to Go

This igneous rock monolith towers above the surrounding landscape just outside the Nigerian capital.

This lovely Scottish nature walk leads to the source of a local legend.

A re-purposed wooden sculpture, depicting one of Scotland's most beloved writer's amphibious creations.

Featuring Torres Strait Islander cuisine and Australia's first indigenous bar.

An entire shopping mall and industrial terrain named for the time the king of Sweden's car went into a ditch.

A conservation sanctuary for rescued koalas, some of which were saved from devastating Australian bushfires.

The remains of a 19th-century carving of what was to be a signal light on the Firth of Forth Estuary.

This gallery is home to everything from antiques, to ancient tribal masks.

This uniquely shaped rock formation is one of Scotland's most iconic mountains and gives spectacular views in all directions.

This Neolithic-era complex boasts standing stones, a cairn, and the only henge in Western Scotland.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

A haunting medieval mural of the Danse Macabre graces the walls of this church.

Inside this 11th-century church, a medieval-style tomb of the World War I hero known as "Lawrence of Arabia."

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

Believed to be the smallest castle in Europe.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

This archaeological site boasts temple ruins that date back 5,000 years to the Dilmun culture, and may have been described in the tale of Gilgamesh's search for immortality.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.

In the 9th-century this small spring-fed well became the location of daily mealtime miracles for one Saxon monk.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

Wander around the extensive remains of this 12th-century medieval church.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.