Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

The oldest ruins at this castle overlooking Georgia's Terek River Valley date back to the 10th century.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

The real clothing store that inspired a fictional spy organization's front.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

According to a local legend, this peculiar mountaintop rock formation is actually a demon that was turned into stone.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

Once the last route taken by condemned prisoners.

An unusual artwork dedicated to a unique man that entertained people visiting Cambridge while raising money for charity.

An ode to the famous Las Vegas signage.

Britain's oldest permanent theatre designed and built for puppets.

A collection of playbills, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Packed with geological formations, an ancient river, and taxidermied seals, this overlooked coastal cave system is worth a spelunk.

How did a literal hole in a wall become one of the top-rated tourist attractions in this English town?

Built in the Soviet era, this cableway system still runs gondolas from Odessa down to Otrada Beach.

At an estimated 3,800 years old, this olive tree is one of the oldest on earth.

A collection of birches from across Sweden.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

Greenery covers the face of a gently-dripping waterfall deep in the mountains of central Sardinia.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

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

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.