Places Little Bird Wants to Go

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Celebrated example of Ottoman architecture that also served as a site for brutal massacres.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

This century-old ruined temple was reborn as "The Church of Skate."

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."