Places ch1k822 Wants to Go

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A student driver's nightmare.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Hidden in the woods behind this English estate lies a Victorian pet cemetery.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

A majestic mansion designed in Mughalai style, complete with a turquoise onion dome.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

On the upper deck of this church-owned parking garage stand eight pillars topped with different Catholic saints.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

One man's collection of found art, sculpture, and ephemera adorns his two side-by-side homes.

This Cleveland mansion has played host to a German singing group, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, a funeral parlor, and many civil rights meetings.

A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.