Places mkowal Wants to Go

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A 19th century hat factory still stands as a crumbling ruin in upstate New York.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.