Places katieannebest Wants to Go

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

Blending modern art with Baroque architecture, this wondrous mosaic grotto serves as the late artist's final creation.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

Wash down heaping platters of meze with raki at one of the city's best taverns.

Valletta’s outdoor theatre stands within the ruins of a 19th-century opera house.

These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

In the sleepy town of Gozo exists a reproduction of the entire town of Bethlehem.

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

A massive bell inside a Danish library rings to announce the birth of a baby in the city.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

The poet’s tombstone keeps getting vandalized by her fans.

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.