Places gwenleif Wants to Go

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.

Seattle’s Whimsical Mural Master.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.

Home to some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found.

Caves that can't seem to quit producing the remains of prehistoric humans.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.