Places Jamesmplant Wants to Go

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

An artificial hill and apparent calendric structure built in the Early Middle Ages immortalizes a legendary Polish princess.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.