Places LeahRumsey Wants to Go

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

A family of distorted sculptures stands outside Seoul's former imperial palace.

The site where the Emperor of Korea performed the long-forbidden "rite of heaven" to demonstrate his absolute sovereignty.

The only wooden pagoda remaining in South Korea is part of a Buddhist temple that was established in the year 553.

Known as the birthplace of Korean Buddhism, this temple features an ancient, five-story stone pagoda.

Though it is hundreds of years old, the intricate details on this 23-foot rock carving of Buddha have been preserved.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

This moss-covered, rocky outcropping looks like a mythical beast resting in the water.

A brisk climb up this solitary peak leads to the origin story of a towering figure in Irish history.

Local legend says a monk brought Christianity to Bornholm through his sermons in a cave inside this free-standing rock.

Inventive brewers use NSW ingredients to dream up flavorful beers made with local honey, native raspberries, and Mariposa plums.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.