Places Eleanor Walker Wants to Go

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

Early Medieval stones sit on display at the beautiful Govan Old Church in Glasgow.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

This enchanting hill is home to fairy lore and a sinister local mystery.

An abandoned railroad tunnel forgotten by time awaits inquisitive hikers.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

A former telephone box found new life as a photo booth and charity fundraiser.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.