Places houdini Wants to Go

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

This former royal palace with gorgeous gardens became the first museum in Morocco.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

Designed to serve primarily the Maharaja, this is an interesting variation on the traditional stepped well.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

One of the cave cities of Crimea, built by the Goths in the sixth century.

This 16th-century Moroccan fortress-turned-armory museum offers prime views of the historic quarter in Fes.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.

A 19th-century funicular railway shuttles visitors up this surprising sea cliff to one of the world's largest camera obscuras.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.