Places remcrae Wants to Go

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

A modest stone circle in North Wales.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

During this yearly Welsh swimming race, competitors tread through the fetid waters of a bog trench.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."