Places Jared Steed Wants to Go

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

Are they the remains of a fallen hotel, or the final stronghold for escaped Nazis?

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

The rusting remnants of a flying boat lie scattered near the site of its fatal crash.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Dance on a hand-hewn log floor padded with bouncy boxcar springs at a saloon built in 1883.

The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.

This enormous, elaborate tomb looks oddly out of place next to a suburban Edinburgh bowling club.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.