Places marcwithasea Wants to Go

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This colorful creation wasn't always a welcome part of Toronto's Moccasin Trail Park.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.