Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

Each tide uncovers a shoreline where Virginia’s prehistoric past washes up.

Some museums preserve beautiful things; this museum preserves hard work.

Yorktown’s grandest colonial home still wears the scars of the siege that helped end the American Revolution.

Standing as a 12th-century architectural titan, this trio of brick structures boasts the tallest surviving Cham tower in Vietnam, reaching an impressive height of 38 meters.

This lighthouse has been in operation since 1881, with an interesting connection to the RMS Titanic.

The sequential animation shows a galloping horse stretching, morphing into a winged Pegasus, and finally transforming into a bird soaring.

Impressive spectacle of how a bunker can land on a beach and resist mother nature for the years that have passed since WWII.

The oldest surviving example of the aqueducts that crossed the Casa de Campo to distribute water.

In Idaho’s high desert, underground water resurfaces as a remarkably rich spring-fed creek.

A busy trail network outside Ketchum, Idaho, hides a small piece of early Forest Service history.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

A bare tree in Riga’s Esplanāde is transformed into an extraordinary vertical neighbourhood by scores of colourful bird nesting boxes clustered across its trunk and branches.

The iconic grave markers from George A. Romero's 1968 horror masterpiece,Night of the Living Dead.

Dating back roughly 240 million years to the Triassic period, it was left by a large, 12-foot-long crocodile ancestor called a Chirotherium or "hand-beast".

Remainders of the defenses established at the start of the previous era in Thai history

See the streets of Siem Reap light up with themed paper puppets.

Rock extracted from this former quarry is responsible for Oaxaca's nickname of "Green Antequera."

This great tree was gifted to Monterrey in 1996, the 400th anniversary of the city's foundation.

This altarpiece isn't a gilded baroque work taken from a church, but rather a recreation where everything (even the fence and lock) are made of paper and cardboard.

It makes sense that this airport, serving one of Mexico's most artistic cities, also doubles as a gallery.

One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.

A rainbow tunnel painted across three buildings and six storeys pulls a child (and every passerby) straight down the rabbit hole, ranked among the world's best murals the year it went up.

Hidden under a shopping centre is the genesis of modern Liverpool.

Discover the unique history of Durham from the 14th century to the present day.