Places Alan Newman Wants to Go

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

This former small-town cinema palace was built with the remains of a luxury liner.

Head to the mountains to catch a glimpse of Spain's endangered subspecies of brown bear.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

From here, the loch appears to take the shape of mainland Scotland.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

The fossilized trunk of a tree that grew around 320 million years ago.

Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This unique style of bridge is the last of its kind and runs over the straightest canal in Britain.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

The first museum in Europe dedicated to the art of origami.

This vintage gem is one of the oldest surviving purpose-built movie palaces in Scotland.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

A collection of sculptures that explore what's at stake when nature is thrown out of balance.