Places lcbudd14 Wants to Go

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.