Places Loec Wants to Go

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The world's first underwater farm is home to more than 700 plants.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

A preserved dragon's rib that remembers the legend of the founding of the city of Atessa.