Places asdonkar Wants to Go

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

A history of heat is on display at this unique Austrian museum.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This Sri Lankan cemetery is the final resting place of sci-fi legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.