Places flblom Wants to Go

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

This amazing mountain temple is topped by one of the tallest sitting Buddha statues in the world.

This luscious masterpiece created by landscape designer Bevis Bawa inspired the work of his brother, a famous Sri Lankan architect.

This palatial, 99-doored Colonial mansion is a marvel of architectural fusion.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

A collection of heirloom roses tucked in a spectacularly beautiful botanical garden on Lake Atitlan.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

A display of works by one of the world masters sacred art, an 18th-century Brazilian sculptor nicknamed "the little cripple."

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.