Places creativename Wants to Go

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.