Places teammartin Wants to Go

Hidden in a Hollywood apartment, this restaurant takes diners on a gastronomic journey through West Africa.

The smallest country in the world.

A historic, reportedly haunted pub that provided inspiration for several famous adventure novels.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

A multi-storied painting that depicts the area's rich and diverse maritime history.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A statue commemorating a Polish dog who took his role as man's best friend very seriously.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

America's second-oldest brick baseball stadium was home to a legendary WWII series that only sailors got to see.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”