Places Auroratorealis Wants to Go

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

A distinctive former power plant turned university lecture hall looks like it could make you breakfast.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.