Places lemardel Wants to Go

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

A well-preserved medieval village nested on a rocky outcrop and surrounded by a network of cliffs, natural bridges and canyons.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

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

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.