Places Alan Newman Wants to Go

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

A museum in south England celebrates the amphibious vehicles that cruise on a cushion of air.

Submerged ruins of a Neolithic coastal settlement, where houses, wells, graves and skeletons have been unearthed.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

"The Donut" was built as part of an expensive, ill-fated engineering endeavor.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

The broken skateboards that became a poignant memorial to a murdered skater.

A black and white painted wall creates an optical illusion in the California desert.

The construction of a tram line unveiled hidden remnants of the old medieval city.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

England's "pier at the end of the universe" unites astronomy and contemporary architecture.