Places Alan Newman Wants to Go

A precariously balanced goose-shaped boulder with a dark legend.

This Gothic Revival castle used as a shooting location for "The Secret Garden" and other films.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

A quartet of rusting satellite goliaths are all that remain of a communication network that protected Britain from German and Russian air strikes.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.