Places alyssachester Wants to Go

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

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

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

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

Recently revamped museum of Fijian history located within a gorgeous colonial-era garden.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.