Places scarew Wants to Go

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

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This small Irish village suffered the greatest loss of life when the Titanic sank.

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

Its collection contains relics from the devastating disaster that set the town ablaze.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

One of four sister bronze sculptures dedicated to the widows and orphans of an 1881 tragedy.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A memorial to a 19th-century fishing disaster that had deep repercussions across Shetland.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

Three memorials honor the victims of the worst sports stadium disaster in Britain.