Places semken Wants to Go

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

A strenuous, unofficial trail leads to spectacular views in one of America's most remote national monuments.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Everything in this two-story house—down to the mounted deer head on the wall—was carefully crafted from concrete.

Everything from alchemy books to building plans for the Eiffel Tower are housed inside this museum.

The site of the world's first modern seismometer.

Take a ride back in time with a steam locomotive trip through Eritrea’s mountainous countryside.

Scrap material from around Eritrea finds a new life at this outdoor market, where upcycling is a lifestyle.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

Featuring Torres Strait Islander cuisine and Australia's first indigenous bar.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.