Places heylizk Wants to Go

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

This rare and ancient Christian relic is one of Ireland’s oldest freestanding stone crosses.

A striped 12th-century basilica sits in the countryside of Sardinia.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

This mesmerizing medieval monastery-cave complex sits thousands of feet above ground overlooking a valley.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

These commemorative stones honor a young woman born in captivity.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

The oldest house in Washington, D.C. wasn't originally constructed in the nation's capital.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.