Places aRedLetterLife Wants to Go

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

Temple complex that once housed the famous statue of Nike.

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

An underground city of salt.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

The tallest statue in the world is twice the height of the Statue of Liberty.