Places kathyhicko59 Wants to Go

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

The only fully operational windmill in Canada.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Collect holy water from a Bronx grotto.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

Artist and musician Will Menter creates musical sculptures.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.