Places rbenn250 Wants to Go

A crypt of relics guards a vial said to liquefy each July

The ruins of the Sacred Heart Memorial, which was first “shot” by a weird firing squad and then dynamited during the Spanish Civil War

It makes sense that this airport, serving one of Mexico's most artistic cities, also doubles as a gallery.

This altarpiece isn't a gilded baroque work taken from a church, but rather a recreation where everything (even the fence and lock) are made of paper and cardboard.

These "antimonuments" confront the Mexican authorities by memorializing the most troubling events in the country's modern history.

This neighborhood was built in the golden age of Art-Decó, and its buildings are essential to understanding this style

Coins, pottery and an underground wunderkammer featuring a fossil of the species named after the collector behind it all.

This great tree was gifted to Monterrey in 1996, the 400th anniversary of the city's foundation.

Monterrey's take on the "Speakers' Corner" was set up as an open space for freedom of expression in 1985

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A cemetery and stairs are all that remains of this former church

One of the oldest continuous congregations organized by Black Americans has been flourishing for nearly 250 years.

This unassuming home played a pivotal role in American history, essentially putting an end to the Revolutionary War.

A small cave with a larger-than-life legend.

The only remaining building from the original 1800 Isle of Wight Courthouse Complex

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.

A remote island marking the entrance to Death’s Door, surrounded by the bones of ships who failed to heed her warnings.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.

A small welcome symbol for visitors to Ann Arbor.

There is no other town or city in the world with the name Swayzee

in 1993, Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett wed secretly in Marion, Indiana hours before she introduced him at a concert in Noblesville, Indiana

Remains of a lock used for navigating the Wabash Canal in the mid-1800s

The early life of Indiana author Gene Stratton-Porter was spent in the Hopewell Church area