Places daratheodora Wants to Go

The remains of this medieval Roman road and lookout towers dot the rugged coastline of southern Lazio.

During the Soviet era, the medieval capital of Volga Bulgaria served as a substitute for Mecca.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

This celebration of Latvia’s freedom and independence avoided demolition over half a century of Soviet occupation.

Destroyed numerous times, this centuries-old bridge has always been rebuilt with its original design.

A former factory now pays tribute to a local industry fueled by sardines.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.

A ring of soy sauce bottle bases decorate an important Singaporean landmark.

An often overlooked ancient site in downtown Athens with substantial history (and nature).

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

A culturally significant rural temple in the beautiful mountains of Itoshima.

Brasilia's oldest newsstand is sheltered by a wish-granting tunnel-tree.

This remote 4,500 year old medicine wheel is one of the last of its kind.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

A massive trilithon nicknamed "Stonehenge of the Pacific."

In this museum, visitors are invited to touch the art.

The ruins of an early-18th-century complex that could once house up to 12,000 horses.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.

This crumbling industrial fortress has attracted daredevils, filmmakers, and historians.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.