Places daratheodora Wants to Go

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

This 14th century castle withstood years of battle but is now sliding off the hills into the Danube.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This sculpture is an instrument played by the swell of the seas.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

Final resting place of John Middleton "The Childe of Hale."