Places alannaf182 Wants to Go

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

Step back in time and witness the fall of Constantinople.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

A towering spire in the fortress of Kalemegdan honors the victorious armies of Serbia during their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.

A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.