Places ruthk Wants to Go

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

The medieval home is still engraved with the symbol of the profession, an eye flanked by two axes.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Definitely not a clown bar.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

An abandoned munitions storage facility with a rich architectural history.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

A strange rock in Chicago marks the spot where a tree once stood in honor of the 18th President.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.