Places PauI Wants to Go

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A statue of the heroine who stopped time to save her betrothed.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

This unassuming alcove in London’s famous Tower Bridge once served to capture, store, and display dead bodies from the River Thames.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

One of the oldest bridges in Norwich was used during the English witch trials and is said to be haunted.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

The iconic blonde bombshell has a familial connection to this town in southern Norway.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

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This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Artist Scott Hocking took a dilapidated 1890s barn to create his massive "Barnboat."