Places Braecrest Wants to Go

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

The wreckage of an old coastal trading vessel is only visible at low tide.

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.