Places asdonkar Wants to Go

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.