Places Hairywombat Wants to Go

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.