Places Calmmseas Wants to Go

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

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

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.