Places rikwilliams Wants to Go

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

A beautiful Kentish country intersection hosts a tasty little photo spot.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

The history of sea-faring refuse and disaster is on cramped display in this Netherlands folk museum.

One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This stone memorial commemorates a group of French patriots slain by French fascists.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

A little known pile of scraps and plaques mark the grave of a downed RAF bomber.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

This small commune with an even smaller name appears to have an unlikely amount of dead ancestors.

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

One man's stunning attempt at eco-friendly living.

Resting on a hill overlooking the coast, these medieval ruins look completely deserted save for their restored chapel.