Places Ian Hall Wants to Go

Freemasonry’s universal creed etched in limestone.

A collection of 2000 bottles of Belgium's favorite drink.

An eye-catching model town in a San Diego backyard.

A stone record of five floods inside Liège’s cathedral.

Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.

A quiet cemetery in northeastern North Carolina holds tiny structures believed to protect spirits.

A candle shop hiding a haunted basement once used as a monkey research lab.

One of the first reinforced-concrete buildings built in the UK, now abandoned.

Bronze frogs link the town’s hidden waterways with the people who shaped it.

The site of the daring river crossing that changed the course of the American Revolution.

Ninety years after his execution, the man accused of starting the Reichstag fire was given a final resting place.

A tour to spot Scotland's once-vanished birds of prey.

The secret behind these nostalgic light fixtures: They're not as old as they may seem.

This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.

This little patch of Europe remained neutral for more than a century because of a mine.

This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

Amazing collection of over 2,000 live birds from around the world, many of which are rare or endangered.

The highest station on the highest adhesion railway in the British Isles.

Europe's longest Hornbeam tunnel.

This building has been a courtroom, a prison, and the location of the last public hanging in Dalkeith.

A restored 1834 stone bank barn preserving the curious history of the natural ice trade.

Climb the tallest remaining fire lookout tower in West Virginia for unparalleled views—if you dare.

One of the rare, saucer-shaped prefabricated homes designed by the Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in the 1960s.

This is the second-oldest rail tunnel in the United States that is still in use today.