Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

Where spies were trained, the Cold War found its first whistleblower, and James Bond was born.

The grave of Karl Eversberg is another grave of a fallen soldier, but Karl's story is one of revenge, defiance in the face of defeat, and the final act of WW1

A remote memorial to Major Michael Adams, the only test pilot to lose his life in the X-15 rocket plane program

A statue honoring the great University of Notre Dame football coach

Once a WWII supply tramway, it's now a popular & steep hiking trail.

A striking symbol of the Troubles, this semi-demolished prison was home to the largest prison escape in the history of the British Isles.

The actual “Hotel Rwanda” that became a hiding place and refuge from the horrors of genocide in 1994.

This traditionally British fish and chip shop is one of the few that still cooks its products in a coal-fired range.

Memorial to the victims of the deadliest aviation incident in the UK

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

The only surviving theatre where William Shakespeare performed as an actor.

A granite memorial to three men swallowed by the Arctic—Andrée, Strindberg and Fraenkel—explorers that attempted one of the most ambitious (and disastrous) North Pole expeditions in history.

A little slice of 19th century France tucked away in the Colorado mountains.

It's an incredibly beautiful city public space, with spacious rooms to study and admire the artwork.

The bell of HMS Hood is rung every Sunday at this ship-themed church.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

A historic small-town ballpark that became the on-screen home of the Rockford Peaches in “A League of Their Own.”

An abandoned WWII-era U.S. Army megaproject, turned hiking trail in the remote Canadian subarctic.

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

Site of the longest gun battle in FBI history.

A hangar at Marathon Key’s airport is now an ode to aviation history.

An old adobe structure first built in the 1890s is a desert watering hole plastered with dollar bills and odd West Texas finds.

A lineup of a dozen or so Japanese light tanks from WWII.