Places claytravels Wants to Go

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

This stone tower was built to protect Crete from incoming pirates.

With over 10,000 lights, this engineering marvel lights up the city after dark.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A massive skeleton suspended in the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Core Science Facility.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

A 150-year-old steam locomotive crosses the southern half of the island daily.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

The last street gas lamps in Hong Kong.

Take a cruise with no movement but plenty of style in this one-of-a-kind boat mall.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

This small island declared independence from South Korea in the hopes of attracting tourists.

A Korean village where times stands still.

The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.