Places asdonkar Wants to Go

These fossilized remains of an ancient saber-toothed cat inspired the mascot of Nashville's NHL team.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

You can find more than 200 species of tropical plants at this garden owned by a former ambassador.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”