Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

King of the Saxons on top, Roman goddess of wisdom on the bottom.

A legend says that if this elaborately decorated glass breaks, the good fortune of its owner's household will also disappear.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

A small memorial commemorates a man who died at Kilkee Cliffs.

It's said this was once the home of King James V's pet lion.

This huge abandoned fortress hidden inside a mountain holds a world of subterranean secrets.

The Gaudí-inspired building that was the start of Terrassenc modernism.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

This former power station is now a museum dedicated to the region's coal-producing history.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

An ornate tower shows off a local artist's architectural flair.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.

One of London's oldest houses contains a mixture of both old and modern features.

According to legend, this tomb holds the secrets to time travel.

One man's attempt to stay one step ahead of the church.