Places Hetaira Thais Wants to Go

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

The remnants of an archaeological camp stand within Tikal National Park.

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

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Ancient petroglyphs discovered only after a massive fire swept across Michigan in the 1880s.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.