Places Charles Fowler Wants to Go

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

The ruins of a Florida miracle spring resort make it seem like a wonder that this was ever a health spa.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

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