Places The Albatross Wants to Go

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.