Places IrajV Wants to Go

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

The massive white mound and accompanying water terraces are a striking geological oddity.

A merchant court dedicated to the fictitious King Arthur is heavily adorned with bizarre Renaissance art.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

This elaborately decorated wall is an homage to the history, beauty and lore of the palm tree.

The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren't fictional anymore.

A celebration of solstice followed by a fiery purging of evils.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Hidden treasures belonging to Mongolia's most revered and multi-talented monk spent decades buried in the Gobi desert.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.