Places CanadianNomad Wants to Go

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.

A long-abandoned provincial prison left to crumble in the frigid air of Ontario.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.