Places IrajV Wants to Go

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.