Places marksuz Wants to Go

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

Inside this church, a monument honors the first burial site of the famed philosopher.

This railroad track was so secretive that it was omitted from all maps.

Rare mummified forest could offers a glimpse into how our environment has been changed by humans.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

Also known as Rye Castle, this 13th-century fortification later became a prison and held one of Rye's most famous criminals.

A network of fortifications that never saw conflict.

This tree was grafted from the actual tree that led Isaac Newton to ponder the theory of gravity.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

A simple plaque remembers a California island massacre that claimed more than 100 lives.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

The oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada runs along this heritage railway.

The official meeting point for the oddly named governing assembly of ancient Sweden.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

A remnant of the Roman army's presence on the coast of Scotland.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.