Places marcwithasea Wants to Go

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

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

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The great Danube river starts here.