Places martinplanasker Wants to Go

This striking sculpture was created in memory of enslaved people, acknowledging that the city of Bordeaux was France’s second-largest slave-trade port.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

The last Victorian market in Belfast.

For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Over a decade ago, painted penguins mysteriously appeared around Berwick-upon-Tweed for no apparent reason.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

This once-majestic, now-abandoned Victorian castle has seen better days.

A former coastal watch post has been turned into a bothy with unrivaled views of the sea and its inhabitants.

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.