Places Madeleine Wants to Go

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

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

On this stunning Scottish island, you can walk in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Instead of solid circles, the stoplights in this northern Icelandic town have glowing red hearts.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.