Places Miniebecky Wants to Go

The largest and best preserved necropolis in the Western Mediterranean.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Modern megaliths form this work of cosmic, Celtic landscape art.

Possibly the oldest masonry dam in all of Europe.

See replicas of Europe's most famous cave paintings and even some of the animals that feature in the art.

A spectacular walk on the flank of a gorge.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A peace symbol in Northern Ireland is among the world's largest hedge mazes.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.