Places evanpelt Wants to Go

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A student driver's nightmare.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.