Places DE Wants to Go

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

The world's only official college program focused on "clown therapy."

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The oldest monument in Marrakesh and the city's only surviving example of Almoravid architecture.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.