Places jules Wants to Go

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Two 2,500-year-old Phoenician boats found on the coast of Spain, giving incredible insight into the ancient maritime traders.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.