Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

In a city famous for its cemeteries, it's no wonder these are easy to overlook—they clock in at just a few inches tall.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

Under a breathtaking Buddhist temple in Vietnam is a basement exhibit that takes visitors to hell and back.

This former monastery in Vietnam now houses a chocolate shop and museum filled with centuries-old taxidermy specimens.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

Under Hanoi’s medieval citadel sits a secret military headquarters from the final years of the Vietnam War.

A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

Nearly three tons of weapons from the Vietnam War still remain in this small, hidden museum.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

A sculpture park that takes the use of clay to a whole new level.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.