Places asdonkar Wants to Go

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

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

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.