Places lensofsteve Wants to Go

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

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

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.