Places gowens Wants to Go

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

This ancient stone necropolis is in danger of disappearing.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

A chessmaster's dream destination.