Places asdonkar Wants to Go

A former graveyard for Riga’s elite is now a large park with elegant monuments.

Marker for a long-gone electric trolley line that spurred the economic development of West Asheville.

A monument first built to honor Confederate soldiers now honors their Union opponents.

A goblet-shaped rock that, according to lore, is the home of an elven hermit.

This is the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler Vlad III Dracul.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

The only museum outside of Australia dedicated to exhibiting the artwork of Indigenous Australian artists.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Hundreds of medieval Islamic gravestones decorate the mountainous landscape in the largest cemetery in Turkey.

Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

A gorgeous stone viaduct crosses over a bucolic valley.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

Glasgow's oldest pub has a proud literary tradition and possibly a ghost or two.

A holy well supposedly infused with a saint's spirit flows within this quaint chapel.