Places katherinehillier Wants to Go

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.

These ancient artifacts are a testament to the enduring significance of the bull in Spanish culture.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

These remarkable cascades are the jewels of Upper Tees.

This stunning and ethereal mural symbolizes the beauty, unity, and diversity of humankind.