Places rachael1006 Wants to Go

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

New York's oldest magic store.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.