Places embentley1 Wants to Go

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

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

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

A French museum of wrought iron.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.