Places worshamrob Wants to Go

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

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

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

This innovative steam machine was no doubt the most famous of the pioneer locomotives.