Places caraobrien Wants to Go

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The cell which saved the life of Ludger Sylbaris, "the man who lived through Doomsday."

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

An underwater city for the dead.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.