Places williamf Wants to Go

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

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

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

This is the oldest Roman-made bridge in the city still existing in its original state.

This curious, round temple is the oldest still-standing marble building in Rome.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.