Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This ancient city—home to nine civilizations—is soon to be buried under 200 feet of water.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

This tiny little cave was said to have been a refuge for a saint with a glowing arm.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.