Places Donna McColl Wants to Go

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

The United Arab Emirates's biggest and oldest fort pays homage to a lost era.

This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

This living legend of maritime history is enjoying a second life.

A glimpse into the festive and private lives of medieval Europe.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

In the sleepy town of Gozo exists a reproduction of the entire town of Bethlehem.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

The historic tall ship is one of just three of its kind still sailing open waters today.

The burial place of one the greatest Arthurian authors, with the sword in the (grave)stone.

These ruins of a sacred Ancient Greek temple stand next to a luxurious modern resort.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

One of the best collections of Byzantine art housed in a magnificent, 19th-century neoclassical home.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

The monastery survived the Communist revolution in Mongolia as a religious museum.

This one-of-a-kind shrine is dedicated to a girl who was too beautiful for her own good.

An off-the-beaten-path monastery in the northern hills of Ulaanbaatar.