Places EdHinDC Wants to Go

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A huge resale shop for the cast-offs of the film & television industry.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

England's most notorious suicide spot.