Places Madeleine Wants to Go

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.