Places daratheodora Wants to Go

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

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

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.