Places charles1 Wants to Go

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The main gates have been locked since 1745 and will remain so until the Stuart Dynasty returns to the throne.

A statue of the heroine who stopped time to save her betrothed.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

This single-track road rewards brave drivers with stunning Scottish scenery.

6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

This relic of transportation history still stands in this Indiana city.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.