Places Morten Buus Wants to Go

Cycle, walk, or run up and down on an old historic railway path.

The longest and steepest staircase locks in the United Kingdom.

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

This tiny watering hole claims to have the smallest bar counter in Europe.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

This bridge once allowed Dere Street to cross the River Tees.

The world's oldest railway bridge in continuous use.

The smallest country in the world.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

This remnant of an ancient Persian city is considered to be the world's largest single-span brick vault arch.

Propped high atop the peak of Mount Gamsutlmeer, this abandoned village is one of the oldest settlements in the region.

This abandoned gold mine found a second life as a post-apocalyptic film set.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.

What might be the largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streets.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

A lone pole once used to display a man's corpse now stands empty, but the memory remains.