Places awesome Wants to Go

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

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

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

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

A unique art center and shop just below a United Nations Checkpoint in central Nicosia.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.