Places Sporadicus Wants to Go

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

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

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.

A holy well supposedly infused with a saint's spirit flows within this quaint chapel.

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.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

This amazing oasis of art and plants is hidden on the outskirts of Marrakesh.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

A botanical garden full of thought-provoking contemporary sculptures.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.