Places worshamrob Wants to Go

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

A student driver's nightmare.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

The lengthy skeleton of one of the tallest Spaniards of all time is on display in Madrid.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

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

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.