Places hjtore Wants to Go

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

A museum which takes visitors to the côté obscure of Paris.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

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The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.