Places lyzchapman Wants to Go

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

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

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

Rainwater transformed this old quarry into a peaceful pond you won't find in most tourist books.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

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

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Greenery cloaks this serene sculpture inspired by the famous Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.