Places miramarco Wants to Go

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

Incredible rock formations jut from the southern end of this spectacular stingray-viewing spot.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

This building has a giant piercing through one of its corners.

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.

This once-forgotten oasis in the middle of Lisbon was first created over a century ago quite by accident.

Mexico City's largest market contains a Willy Wonka-esque wonderland.

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

These ruins are a hidden gem, complete with fantastic views over the cliff edge.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

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

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

This unique preservation is one of the only taxidermies in the world made with real whale skin.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.