Places creativename Wants to Go

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

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

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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