Places sarahltait Wants to Go

In the middle of an abandoned stretch of old Route 50 lies a tombstone that weighs three tons.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

A former medieval fortress, now home to Edinburgh Napier University, contains a rather risqué work of art.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

This grounded passenger jet is now a restaurant, complete with rows of seats and “flight attendant” servers.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

A showcase of engineering might that was also symbolic of westward expansion.

A picturesque example of brute-force engineering conquering nature.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Hidden inside a gift shop that doubles as a museum, this gargantuan yo-yo can only be operated by crane.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

California's first suspension bridge.