Places Oubliette Wants to Go

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A statue commemorating the perilous journey made by the monks who delivered the body of St. Cuthbert.

In addition to escorting prospective couples to and from ballrooms, this lane was also a place for gentlemen to settle scores.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

The ruins of a 19th-century corn mill are haunted by a malevolent cave-dwelling spirit.

Almost nothing but earthworks remain of this long-lost castle.

Eighteenth-century home, where Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

Britain's tallest megalith towers over the cemetery of a quiet English village.

This historic castle was already in ruins by the 13th century.

Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.

This temple was constructed entirely by Roman soldiers.