Places sarahltait Wants to Go

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

A Gothic-style abode built to accommodate the church's three resident peacocks.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

This 12th-century castle majestically overlooks the city and the beautiful Mosel River valley.

The grave of the first dolphin to play Flipper is located at the Dolphin Research Center.

A configuration of a trio of statues that depict a scene reflecting a time emblematic in the city’s rich history.

High seas history comes to life at this immersive museum with an on-site tavern.

In a past life this steamboat hauled rubber and passengers up and down the Amazon.

An 11th-century Viking gravestone in a Victorian parish church graveyard.

A curious memorial to the Berlin Wall, German division, the war, and those who died at the wall.

A symbolic cemetery in a suburban square marks the birthplace of Poland's WWII resistance movement.

This school building was an extravagant show of wealth for a boomtown that mostly faded in the following decade.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

The oldest bibliophilia club in America, with exhibitions on historic books and graphic arts.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.