Places stanleyryman Wants to Go

This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.

This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

This colorful and fiery mural depicts the Irish folk story of the beloved hero Cuchulain.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

This memorial celebrates the legacy of the British-Norwegian resistance movement during World War II.

Legend has it that a Dutch fisherman lost control of his Shetland pony and tumbled from this cliff.

One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

Locals pay their respects at a shrine to soccer player Diego Maradona—which claims to contain a real lock of his hair.

Massive sinkholes on a mountain in one of the most remote places in Venezuela.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

An elegant church is home to a remarkably detailed mosaic floor depicting the Garden of Eden.