Places cquelch Wants to Go

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

A 1930s defensive fortification designed to protect Italy from a German invasion.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

A stunning fusion of Ottoman and Fatimid architectural styles.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

A massive bell inside a Danish library rings to announce the birth of a baby in the city.

The luxurious English estate houses the world’s largest private collection of French Rothschild wines.

17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weight.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

This is Britain's one and only clock concealed in the pavement.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

For the deepest sleep of your life, head 1,375 feet underground in Wales.

A renovated henge and stone circle just south of Stanton Harcourt village.

A 17th-century manor house with a Tudor garden and some chilling history.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.