Places HoboPal Wants to Go

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

Because holiday cheer is at its finest when it includes eerie mannequins, right?

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This pub has roots dating back to 1430 and serves as the setting for multiple Charles Dickens stories.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

An impressive Sasquatch statue marks the spot of a fated Bigfoot encounter that changed a community.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.