Places mewissa Wants to Go

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

This sculpture shows an iconic image typical of Ibiza that, however, did not take place here

An unexpected homage to 90s celebrities hidden in a corner of Ibiza.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

These lakeside pictographs were some of the first pieces of prehistoric artwork found in Finland.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Hundreds of signs pointing to the birthplaces of current Helsinki residents form stalactites on the ceiling of the cave-like Kamppi metro station.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.