Places scoutboy Wants to Go

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

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

People have been placing babies on these lilies for photoshoots since the Victorian era.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

A little-known museum of Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek artifacts.

A long-closed church turned into a saintly skate park.

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

Just like in Hollywood, Madrid has also a forgotten walk of fame.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

This cluttered cantina is famed for its cheese-spiked, raisin-flavored liqueur.

This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.

This magnificent tree towering over the Atlantic rainforest is one of the oldest and largest in Brazil.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.