Places dburnett4 Wants to Go

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A student driver's nightmare.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A World War II gun battery sits at the easternmost point of North America.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.