Places cait7911 Wants to Go

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A historic hotel library in Indiana hides more than a few secrets on its shelves.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

Some of the best Persian food in New York comes from the front window of an unassuming pizza shop.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

This small city park is best known for the nightly convergence of thousands of shrieking parakeets.

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.