Places cristyshepherd Wants to Go

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

A serene desert oasis speckled with ancient artifacts.

A historic Christian shrine nestled within a spectacular natural cave.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A Neolithic passage tomb said to have sheltered two legendary Irish lovers.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

It's believed King John of England stayed at this 13th-century castle before riding off to sign the Magna Carta.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.