Places NicholasManila Wants to Go

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

Hungarian self-built castle.

"Medieval" castle built in the mid-20th century by one family.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

A hidden workshop for creating and restoring Papal mosaic masterpieces.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

Ancient human remains unearthed around the iconic monument.

Soldiers carved these regimental badges into the chalk hills in remembrance of those who died in World War I.

The first archaeological site discovered by aerial photography.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.