Places elainehart Wants to Go

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

The carved medieval stones stand near the ruined abbey's parking lot.

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

Small museum dedicated to the founder of electromagnetic theory.

More stones than Stonehenge, all scattered within a windswept landscape sure to enchant 'Outlander' fans.

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.