Places lizzyrbits Wants to Go

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.