Places asdonkar Wants to Go

An unpaid bill, a stolen stone, and a famous fashion designer rest peacefully alongside a heroine of Highlands history.

Inside a Scottish castle hangs the tattered remains of a flag with murky origins and supposed magic powers.

This ruined castle is said to be the legendary keep of a Viking princess.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Vibrant paintings stretch across 600 feet of derelict railway.

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

A cemetery that holds graves for the forgotten children of a burned orphanage.

This Norman church survived the Reformation before suffering 300 years of neglect.

This Greek Orthodox church houses the mummified body of St. Spyridon.

According to local legend, an ancient serial killer nicknamed the “Hag” once haunted this pond.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

This “grave” memorializes the 53 rakugo stories that were once banned by the national censorship.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.