Places CircaVermont Wants to Go

These desert alfalfa farms redefine the meaning of crop circles.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

This hidden park hosts a rogue’s gallery of eccentric architectural obelisks.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

Former Toronto home of the author who wrote, “The medium is the message.”

The first post office in Toronto still operates today, complete with quill pens and ink for writing letters.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

A snapshot of Scottish folklore and magical heritage.

An underground venue, buried for 200 years, now open as a unique whisky tasting venue.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

These oversized fruit sculptures honor the contributions of the Windrush generation.

The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.

An oddity of a bygone era that stills functions today.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.