Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.

The crypt under this cemetery's chapel was used as a meeting place by Filipino revolutionaries.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

Now a retreat center for the faithful, it once provided training for clergy—but it began as a farm owned by a famed financier and his opera singer wife, who built a surprise in the backyard.

Not your average art gallery, this massive center hosts 8,000 works from artists across Africa—and it’s free to the public.

A major spiritual gathering place in central Maine since the mid-1800s.

A shrine honoring a legendary ghost bride lies within this vibrant temple.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

A heated sculpture pays tribute to an actor who loved hugs.

Nestled among the bamboos in a temple complex, this art installation serves as a unique memorial to insects.

This site pays tribute to the life of an iconic local dog.

These colorful sawdust illustrations are trampled into non-existence only moments after they are finished.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

This incredibly diverse research station is one of the largest tropical botanical gardens in the world.

Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.

A full-size replica of this well-preserved temple lets you take a walk through the Mayan age.

These Honduran caves earned their magical nickname thanks to reflective bone deposits.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.

The poet Walt Whitman was a frequent visitor to this spot, the highest on Long Island.