Places Aika Wants to Go

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.