Places olivemgratton Wants to Go

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A stone hut overlooking a picturesque bay once hosted picnics for the wealthy Gribbel family.

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

This is Bremen’s oldest historic district, famous for its labyrinth of narrow medieval alleys lined with tiny, colorful 15th-century houses that resemble beads on a rope.

The cavern’s main chamber is so vast that the Statue of Liberty could reportedly fit inside it.

A solitary arbor with a unique pedigree.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

This exclusive resort has completely covered a tiny Balkan island in a 5-star warren of guest rooms.

A hidden and beautiful waterfall in middle of one of the biggest urban forests of the world.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

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

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.