Places cloudyrose Wants to Go

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Works from the golden age of Mexican muralism can be found inside a typical city market.

Legend says that Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife, leaving behind this round valley.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

This meticulously reconstructed early medieval settlement offers an immersive experience of daily life in an Anglo-Saxon community.

This haunting stone chasm is a hotbed of mossy rock and English legend.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

The geomorphology of the Turia Valley could easily be mistaken for Utah or Arizona.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

Denmark’s oldest bakery is home to the 'Wednesday Snail,' one of the best cinnamon rolls on the planet.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An unusual, funny and fantastic open air museum.

An ancient well nestled at the foot of Glastonbury Tor, shrouded in Arthurian legend and revered for its purported healing waters.