Places alessandralee Wants to Go

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This weekly bazaar started in the 1960s as a way for hippie travelers to barter their goods.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

Europe's largest collection of matchbox designs is a fascinating exploration of the cultural history of the world.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.