Places isabelladole Wants to Go

This sanctuary became synonymous with fear and terror in the ancient world.

This tiny island is recognized as the site where St. Paul landed after a shipwreck in the first century.

Since 1999, this gelateria founded by a string instrument maker has been turning out some of Rome’s best scoops.

Built in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake, this cathedral is one of the finest examples of Sicilian Baroque architecture.

Hilltop garden on the site of an old fortress overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

This fantastical faceless sculpture in Spain is on the grandest scale.

This is not a heritage railway, but when the new high speed line fully opens in 2032, at least part of this magnificent and historic line should be preserved.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.