Places ckoohle Wants to Go

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

What happens when you cross a mayor and a painter?

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.