Places jmallott Wants to Go

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

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

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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.