Places elizabethtravels Wants to Go

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.

A market built atop boats is one of the few floating holiday markets in Europe.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A magical expanse of colorful street murals lies hidden within the quiet neighborhood.

A startling, centuries-old subterranean marvel hides in plain sight.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

A mecca for India's Jains.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This Ukraine alleyway has become its own little island of forgotten things.