Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Vaucanson's most famous automaton, brought back to life.

A little known pile of scraps and plaques mark the grave of a downed RAF bomber.

A small island that was once a key Axis fortification during World War II.

A unique military outpost carved into a rocky outcrop in the English Channel.

Ride the rails on a train harkening back to a 19th-century marvel.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

Supposed home of the camel ridden by Napoleon during his Egyptian campaign.

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

Live-in sculpture begun by one family in 1979.

The castle where the Marquis de Sade lived out his darkest fantasies.

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.

A sandstone block marks the alleged spot where the legendary writer was conceived.

This French chateau is home to the world’s largest private collection of fighter jets.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

Half a century after it was abandoned, this ghost town is coming back to life.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

Small French town or alien garage?