Places karin66204 Wants to Go

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

Rusted cars, trucks, and buses form a fascinating collection of Soviet-era machinery.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

One of the cave cities of Crimea, built by the Goths in the sixth century.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

One of the few surviving street funiculars in the world.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.