Places Deirdreod Wants to Go

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

This rustic, flower-lined pathway once had very little in common with its namesake.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

These bleak 800-year-old ruins were once the royal residence of choice for hunting in Sherwood Forest.

A prehistoric geological oddity tucked behind Stockholm's natural history museum.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

An iconic red telephone box turned tiny art gallery.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

This Arcadian garden in the Pentland Hills boasts over 270 artworks by Scottish artist and poet, Ian Hamilton Finlay.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.