Places jillstug Wants to Go

A 15th-century whalebone is tucked away in an unassuming corner of this medieval church.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

Abandoned 19th century homes once occupied by naval officers, soon to be demolished.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

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

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.