Places calebwakeham Wants to Go

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

This shack nestled in a 120-acre forest of maple trees in Mont-Rigaud is a wonderland of sugary syrup.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.