Places jacobmunkhammar Wants to Go

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

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

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

An eerie former warehouse turned cistern turned movie set.

This elevator was built in 1907 to connect two neighborhoods separated by a steep, rocky cliff.

This former peat factory was transformed into an observatory before being abandoned once again.

Believed to be the first museum dedicated to the films in the world.

For decades, these ships have been lying in rust awaiting a final decision on their fate.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

Once a major stop on the Hejaz Railway, this desert station (complete with steam locomotive) has been abandoned for decades.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

This highest bridge in the world spans such a great chasm that it had to be established using rockets.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This Victorian water wheel is affectionately nicknamed "Little Isabella."

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.

Australia's oldest artists' colony.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.