Places AmberL Wants to Go

The ruins of a 16th-century Spanish convent tell a forgotten history.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

This remnant of an ancient Persian city is considered to be the world's largest single-span brick vault arch.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

This park straddling the United States-Canadian border has been a symbol of peace since 1932.

The oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada runs along this heritage railway.

This strangely specific landmark will let travelers know when they are half way there.

You don't have to visit the deep blue sea to see these majestic creatures swimming wild and free.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

Only six people can sit inside this delightfully quaint sanctuary.

The largest canoe collection in the world—and the most Canadian museum ever.

A sacred Ojibwe site covered in pictographs next to Lake Superior.

This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.