Places daratheodora Wants to Go

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

This Scottish castle has witnessed clan rivalries, Jacobite uprisings, whisky smuggling, and more.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.