Places Mesi Wants to Go

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

Obelisks and stone pineapples in the Irish countryside.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

This Manchester laundromat is hiding something.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A Victorian Gothic masterpiece housing a world-class collection of rare books and manuscripts.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Above an abandoned Underground station, this charming bookstore is home to strange antiquities and literary works.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.