Places Donna McColl Wants to Go

A Buddhist temple covered in intricate designs and carvings made out of seashells and pieces of coral.

A forgotten hiker’s lodge, now reclaimed by the forest, with its chimney standing as a lone sentinel of the past.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.

A sculpture garden built by a retired durian farmer.

Self-mummified monk who wears sunglasses and has become a gecko hatchery.

This natural rock formation has an anatomical aesthetic.

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.

The site of an ancient city pillar that was lost and rediscovered.

Halfway up a volcano at the edge of the world’s largest salt flats is a cave with seven mummies.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Estimated at over 1,000 years old, one of Malta's oldest trees serves as a living link to its ancient past.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.