Places Alan Newman Wants to Go

These medieval monastery ruins are surprisingly overlooked by most tourists.

This unlikely memorial honors the Canadian and Portuguese laborers who felled trees for the Allies in World War I.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

A portly statue of a golden boy commemorates an unusual cause of the Great Fire of London: the sin of gluttony.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

It is still illegal to "quarrel" at this unlikely urban oasis built on top of an electrical substation.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."

This huge concrete map of Scotland was built as a thank you gift from a Polish soldier.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.