Places Ian Hall Wants to Go

The home and final resting place of the first native-born American saint

Baltimore’s longest row of identical attached houses

This lantern pillory is probably the most remarkable and best preserved in Europe

This dolmen-like monument in the countryside is a symbol of the link between Belgium and Portugal (and indeed all other European countries)

An unassuming hillside that preserved humanity's oldest genetic code

One of the oldest still-used metallic fountains in Europe

This plaque commemorates the end of a symbolic battle waged by local residents against a project to demolish a large number of homes. And although it only lasted 2 and a half months, it still has major repercussions today

Despite its romantic name, this cross marks the site of a tragedy (and, incidentally, an ancient frontier)

This showcase displays contemporary works of art from a private collection, with the aim of making them accessible to everyone

This humble grave is that of one of the most important men in Belgian history. But its incongruous location masks a cruel twist of destiny...

The almost useless bridge that no Belgian wants to see disappear

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

Dozens of giant mermaids are hidden across Florida’s coast in parks, yards, and beaches.

A lochside castle linked to Robert the Bruce, but not everything is as it seems!

This remarkably preserved historic structure stands as the last surviving remnant of Corstorphine Castle.

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

A 19th century bank turned into a 6-story immersive art experience.

Listen to the sounds of the Earth moving along the Rose Canyon Fault.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

Two sections of the old dam that made it possible to tame the Meuse in Belgium in the 19th century.