Places Donna McColl Wants to Go

A rehabilitation center for confiscated, orphaned, and abandoned chimpanzees.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

The former home of Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint now houses a collection of Berber art and artifacts.

This vast masterpiece of Moroccan architecture spreads across 20 acres.

This oceanfront cave was the site of a 17th-century massacre.

Cervantes’ Don Quixote lives on in mosaics at this La Mancha winery.

At this bohemian accommodation, guests who dream of joining the circus can spend the night in themed wagons.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

This 18th century Marathi fort is adorned with a spiked front gate meant to repel enemy elephants.

This striking structure, with balconies jutting out like hedgehog spines, combine cutting-edge design with a playful approach to light and space.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Hidden in plain sight, a gravestone seemingly inscribed from the future stands among the cemetery’s historic tombs.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

Park in the Canary Islands renowned for white dunes that contrast with the turquoise waters of the Atlantic.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.