Places dstarr7517 Wants to Go

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.

A beloved tribute to the Fab Four and the freedoms they inspired.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

The river depicted in the antiwar film 'Apocalypse Now' was likely based on this Mekong tributary.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.

This magical place built as an astronomical center starred as a James Bond villain's lair.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

One of the world’s few undersea pedestrian tunnels connects Honshu and Kyushu islands.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.