Places Alan Newman Wants to Go

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

To literally keep their waste out of their own backyards, the citizens of this English city built an impressive sewer system that is still in use today.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

The first privately owned air raid shelter in Britain, built after a horrifying night of Zeppelin bombings.

Vintage cars and motorcycles race for glory in a throwback motorsport celebration on the Jersey shore.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A vast personal collection of World War II artifacts unearthed over many years by a father-son duo.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.