Places daveschaaf Wants to Go

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Here lies Hattori Hanzō, a samurai who is remembered as a legendary ninja in today’s popular culture.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

The seat of the lost Ryukyu Kingdom has survived numerous fires and wars over the centuries.

The oldest stone lion in Okinawa survived a major battle during World War II.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The world's largest sundial can cast a shadow more than 1,600 feet long.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

At least according to the Guinness World Records.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

The fragmented remains of a massive public bath connected to the city's water supply.

The ruins of an ancient stadium that hosted gripping chariot and horse races.

The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

The world's largest wooden structure.

These "mermaids" that surround a plaza in Segovia are rather sphinx-like.

A curious memento mori hangs in the magnificent Cathedral of Segovia.