Places Hannah Theobald Wants to Go

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

A charmingly unusual prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.

The gorgeous murals at this open-air museum form the largest street art collective in Chile.

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

This unusually-named reservoir found a second life as a nature preserve.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.

Once the tallest building in Chisinau, this unique tower is a relic of Soviet architecture.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

Local lore says a serpent-like beast lurks in the deep basin below the falls.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

The walls of this sandstone outcropping are covered with 2,000-year-old artwork.

A Mayan village preserved for centuries in volcanic ash.

Just outside Lesotho's capital city, a rock formation takes the shape of a powerful predator.

A half-century-old handmade dim sum joint opens daily at 3:00 a.m.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.