Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

This remote location of this Moorish stronghold means it doesn’t attract many tourists—and that it still has the aura of fear and bravery of the 1300s.

Likely the first car with an internal combustion engine constructed in the United Kingdom.

One of the best-preserved, yet least visited stone circle sites in Cumbria.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

This statue commemorates a special connection between ancient Greece and the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.

This unusual stone monument marks the starting point of the epic and tragic event.

This Gallo-Roman sanctuary is dedicated to Serápis, god of the underworld.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

The ruins of a small church belonging to a powerful Scottish family still hold the remains of its patriarch.

A tribute to those that perished during the American Revolution.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.

A potpourri of rocks, fossils, and crystals is rounded out by a dinosaur garden and a 15-foot great white shark.

A defensive structure built during the Hundred Years War has remained useful in one way or another for nearly 700 years.

Designed to honor the birthplace of Buddha.

During World War II, a number of important sculptures and paintings were moved to this castle for safekeeping.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

This fortified L-shaped tower is the ancient seat of clan Hannay.

A poignant memorial to remember the Australian nurses who lost their lives during the Second World War.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.