Places benjathom Wants to Go

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A student driver's nightmare.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

Eat like a "buckaroo" at this remote restaurant.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

When oil was discovered just outside of Pittsburgh, the city became home to this regional stock market.