Places jessicaking72 Wants to Go

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.

Abandoned Roman Catholic chapel abused by Satanists before being restored.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

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

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.