Places isobelpoetry Wants to Go

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

The ship that got left behind.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?