Places alessandralee Wants to Go

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

Thousands of miniature bronze sculptures have taken over this city square creating a unique art installation.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

Art becomes an enchanting part of the environment at this wooded sculpture park.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

At this Arctic outpost, get to know members of the indigenous Sámi community and meet their herds.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.