Places Michelle Cassidy Wants to Go

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

Hundreds of notes give thanks to the patron saint of lost causes.

Nestled in the mountains of Portugal is a tiny village made almost entirely of schist.

This cascade of mineral-rich hot springs and waterfalls is an oasis in the Jordanian desert.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

These towering cliffs jut dramatically from the middle of a barren desert.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

Swim or sail to this pie-slinging boat off the coast of St. Thomas.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

A jumble of treasures in a small space, this old-fashioned local museum is full of surprises.

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

One of the few surviving examples of Victorian-era public toilets now houses a small homestay.

Hidden behind West Philadelphia rowhomes is a haven for migratory and local bird species both ordinary and rare.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

This oddly beautiful water cistern is a techno-temple to the wet stuff and a multimedia masterpiece.

A statue honors the genius who allegedly first took a meatball and made it into a hamburger.