Places ukmarkr Wants to Go

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

Genoa's collection of over 4 million zoological, botanical, and geological specimens from around the world.

Once home to one of the oldest banks in the world, this building is also where Marco Polo's famous travelogue was written.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

A little-known cafe in an old copper bridge tower with 360-degree views of the harbor.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Home to items never before seen by the public.