Places sarahltait Wants to Go

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

Legends, sculptures, and unique tombs can be seen lurking in these connected cemeteries.

This stately Victorian-era burial ground overlooking the Pacific Ocean is home to the graves of some of British Columbia's most famous figures.

Among the cliffs of the Elora Gorge is an oft-overlooked piece of celebratory graffiti.

Known as the "Kissing Bridge" for its privacy, it also happens to be the last covered bridge in Ontario.