Places dstarr7517 Wants to Go

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

This ancient cave temple complex is the largest and best-preserved temple complex in Sri Lanka.

A pair of mysterious, unusually polished cave temples with an ancient gold legend.

A massive ancient Chinese city with stone walls and evidence of human sacrifices.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

A living museum of curated gardens honors 4,000 years of agriculture in the Santa Cruz River basin.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

The people of Padua pledged to construct this church if the city was spared from destruction during World War I.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.