Places brooklynab Wants to Go

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

The most impressive example of contemporary Romanian architecture in wood

A stunning waterfall in the mountains of Romania.

This fortress-like monastery is covered with intricate frescoes.

Home of the first female Hungarian poet, where her secret writing lay hidden for over a century.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

A fire once nearly devoured this gorgeous 14th-century Gothic cathedral.

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

A paradisical gorge with rapids, waterfalls, and wildlife whose raw beauty is the stuff of CGI movies.

Enormous array of antennae fill a desert valley.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.