Places bertshetler Wants to Go

A boulder in the Churchyard of Down Cathedral marks the legendary burial place of "The Apostle of Ireland."

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

The ruins of an unfinished explosives factory can be found while taking a gentle stroll through a Manx glen.

An unusual monument to a 19th-century circus star.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

A failed infrastructure project now owns this unique moniker.

This sturdy, circular stronghold served as one of the forts that protected the Venetian Lagoon.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.