Places joannemilne Wants to Go

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Claude Monet was baptized in this lavishly ornate Paris church.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

The other side is actually green.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

This massive complex is made up of hundreds of smaller temples that date back to the ninth century.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.