Places chrispawluk Wants to Go

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

An old drug store full of mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, and medicines reputed to cure most any illness.

Where a young athlete began his run across Canada after losing his right leg to cancer.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Inside this building is another country within Rome, a sovereign entity without a physical territory.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A great white whale sculpture now sits in the location where the remains of a prehistoric cetacean were found.

A medieval weapon rumored to have been used by the brilliant poet himself.

The middle finger of modernity.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.