Places johnsongeographic Wants to Go

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Fantastic lake on the heart of a fault line.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

The Last Home of an Executed King.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."