Places Aika Wants to Go

The Indian capital of black magic and witchcraft.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.