Places tomstrong Wants to Go

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

China has many statues of the general and war god, but none are as epic as this.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

This early version of the guillotine was used to execute the man responsible for its construction.

The dance of this huge clock is a magnificent and eerie commentary on good and evil in the history of humankind.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

This lonely Lithuanian chapel looks more beautiful and haunting in decline than it ever did in life.

A once-magnificent collegiate church is falling into ruin.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.