Places emajohn Wants to Go

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

This modern labyrinth lies in the shadow of a ruined medieval castle.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.