Places Lana Velkov Wants to Go

This Irish museum in a historic 19th century market pays tribute to the glory of butter.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

This often-missed monastery, set in a scenic mountain landscape, features unique frescoes, fortifications and legends.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

A remote shipwreck at the end of the world.

Breakfast and lunch in a canteen where the servers and kitchen staff are prison inmates.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

Tour part of the Maginot Line bunker system built to defend France against a German invasion.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

In 1943 the British military took control of this village, telling residents they had to leave temporarily. The villagers were never allowed to return.

Where the legendary wizard sleeps for eternity, according to Arthurian lore.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.

The haunting beauty of this little-visited wreck makes it a true hidden treasure.