Places Colin McDonald Wants to Go

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

This Italian-style temple replica has been threatening to fall off the Irish coast for hundreds of years.

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

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

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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

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

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

A record-breaking pool that uses computers to turn ocean water into cleaner, private swimming water.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.