Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

This massive sculptural work outside of Paris was four decades in the making—and it's still not quite complete.

The last home designed in its entirety by noted architect Luis Barragán owes its existence to an impressive jacaranda tree.

Europe's only Temple of Mithras located in a natural cave.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

A tumbling waterfall near a narrow passage that was used to herd cattle for hundreds of years.

Jesus turns into vines inside this chapel.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

This unique creation was made by the largest manufacturer of Christmas bulbs in 1946 to honor those returning from World War II.

This impressive midden of scallop shells apparently all comes from a single fishing company.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

An eighth-century rock-cut cave temple in the middle of Pune.

This beautiful 14th-century castle perched on a promontory overlooks the Bay of Trieste.

This collection of Neolithic monuments make up one of The U.K.'s richest archeological landscapes.

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

A collective artwork that any visitor to the islands of Barra and Vatersay can add to.

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

An eccentric memorial garden to the "warrior" birds of World War I, the messenger pigeons used by the Allied forces.

This Neolithic-era complex boasts standing stones, a cairn, and the only henge in Western Scotland.

It's said this was once the home of King James V's pet lion.

Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.