Places Whit Wants to Go

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

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

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.