Places katherinehillier Wants to Go

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.

Just saying the name of this town out loud is said to bring bad luck.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Olive’s garden serves up a seemingly endless helping of outback delights.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.

An ornate aviary built during the Victorian trend of collecting exotic birds.

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.