Places cyntha27 Wants to Go

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

With a design inspired by traditional Latvian textiles, this monument honors the Latvian people who suffered under Soviet occupation.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

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

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Romania's "Red Ravine" is a little-known natural wonder that bears a resemblance to the Grand Canyon.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.