Places elainehart Wants to Go

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The factory that helped produce a dominant form of lighting before Thomas Edison.

Compensation for the destruction of a historic shipyard.

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

The only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn.

A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.

Where infamous mobster and leader of Murder Inc. Albert Anastasia made his home.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Take in a rare, face-to-face glimpse of Lady Liberty at this tucked away Red Hook park.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Come for the sustainable organic chocolate, stay for the sustainable organic booze.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.