Places Braecrest Wants to Go

An unusually shaped lighthouse with origins rooted in heartbreak.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Buried upright and facing the sea, James Chaine transformed the town of Larne.

The base for the battle against the smugglers of Islandmagee.

The wreck of a B-29 Superfortress now stands as a memorial left in the moors.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

Artillery recovered from the sea floor marks the spot of an extraordinary shipwreck.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

An abandoned shipping control tower looks like a satellite perched at the end of a pier.

High on a hill, an obelisk stands as tribute to local soldiers from several wars.

These sculptures honor the knights who once called Carrickfergus Castle their stronghold.

The first military air station in all of Ireland hosted "battlebags."

A historic fortification critical to Anglo-Scottish conflicts now serves as a bed and breakfast.

This stone honors the U.S. Rangers who made Carrickfergus their home base during World War II.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.