Places SL Wants to Go

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.

The "beautiful" equation predicting the movement of all electromagnetic particles is engraved in front of Newton's tomb.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

This ancient bridge made of stone slabs is said to be reserved for the devil to sunbathe.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

Now nearly dry, this lake is said to be the ancient home of the Lady of the Lake, and was once thought to be bottomless.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.