Places LeahRumsey Wants to Go

The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.

The ruins of the second of three churches dedicated to the saint in a touristic Scottish town.

Local legend says there's treasure hidden within its crowded graveyard.

At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

You can enjoy a (possibly haunted) stay at the medieval Norman castle that was once a favorite hunting lodge of King John.

A surviving Klondike Gold Rush-era log cabin that was dismantled log by log to save it, and can still be stayed in today.

Detailed sandstone carvings show an array of symbolism and adorable animals.

Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

This archipelago homestead-turned-museum has remained the same since its last resident, born in 1897, died in 1973.

The Cathedral of St. Ambrose has been hiding a special parishioner within its walls.

Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints can be found along a hiking trail in this small village.

Europe's largest dinosaur museum was founded by a passionate autodidact.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A reminder of the dinosaur skeleton discovered in a local quarry.

This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A surreal paleontological sculpture garden pays homage to a fading industry.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

This Bronze Age burial mound used to be called "Robin Hood’s Piss-Pot" until it was renamed by spoilsport Victorians.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.