Places dawnrfifer Wants to Go

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

Forgotten German bunkers in China create a sharp cultural contrast.

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

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.