Places alessandralee Wants to Go

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

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

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

The oldest public library in Ireland.