Places irony22 Wants to Go

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

The best way to get a sneak peek at the movies.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Though difficult to access, this stunning cave has a place in Scotland's poetic history.

This lovely Scottish nature walk leads to the source of a local legend.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

Legend says this rock was once a chopping block for public executions.

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

These skilfully executed, poignant works of art dot a verdant Scottish dell.

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

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.