Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

Inside this home, the Icelandic national anthem was born.

A graveyard for early settlers, sometimes called Old Pioneer Cemetery, hidden in the woods on a hillside.

An angelic, yet demonic-looking figurine presides over one of Glasgow's most ancient streets.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

A sense of bewilderment encounters visitors when they happen upon this former railway bridge.

This tablet indicates where the tragic monarch returned to begin her tumultuous downfall.

A former medieval fortress, now home to Edinburgh Napier University, contains a rather risqué work of art.

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

A sculpture in a secluded garden honors one of Edinburgh's most innovative thinkers and city planners.

At this historic pub, you can sit back, sip, and watch a whole century go by.

This public library still showcases its former life as a 19th-century church.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.

This bare, bronze lad in a lone sock sits in the middle of Loughborough’s town center.

This unique creation was used to house and wash sheep prior to shearing.

Legend has it that a Dutch fisherman lost control of his Shetland pony and tumbled from this cliff.

Described by William Wordsworth as a "World of Wonder."