Places Lana Velkov Wants to Go

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Northern Europe’s largest castle ruins sit precariously on an island cliffside.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

Inside a Scottish castle hangs the tattered remains of a flag with murky origins and supposed magic powers.

This curious gravestone tells the legend of an unknown mariner's grisly murder.

An 18th-century hunting lodge turned haunted Baroque palace.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."

A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.

The last Oostende trawler to fish off Iceland is now a museum.

This giant two-tier celebration cake serves as a befitting advert for the confectionery college it sits on top of.

Visitors to this museum will find architectural oddities, an art gallery, and an unlikely bird sanctuary.

This underwater sculpture park is the basis for a manmade coral reef.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

A lonely memorial to the 107 victims of Pan Am Flight 812, which crashed in Bali in 1974.

After being bombed and largely abandoned, this former railway workshop has been transformed into a lively market space.

This gem of Moorish architecture is slowly disintegrating along the coast of this charming town.

The Bulgarian royal family exclusively used this ornate, now-abandoned train station.

After this medieval Serbian fresco was hidden for centuries, an image of it became one of the first to be sent into space.

A series of metal trumpets in the heart of Ruma represents the seven Vojvodina People's Liberation Brigades.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.