Places lizzyrbits Wants to Go

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

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

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.