Places Alan Newman Wants to Go

This 15th-century aqueduct with distinctive pointed arches was used for irrigation in the Vinalopó valley.

A modernist church in an ancient village.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

These three pillboxes still remain as a witness of the Spanish Civil War in a park of Madrid.

Geological storytelling.

Two large eyes painted anonymously on a mountain overlooking the city pay homage to an old legend.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Powerline dead since the 1980s despite appearances.

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

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.