Places cristyshepherd Wants to Go

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

A fantastic Christmas tradition where defecation meets the manger.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

Curious cave that stays a cool 56 degrees all year long.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.