Places alexisbeardg Wants to Go

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

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

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This ancient burial mound is accessed by an impressive Greek-built archway.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

These picturesque ruins crumble beautifully into the ocean.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.