Places miramarco Wants to Go

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

The ruins of this Dutch castle sit atop a labyrinth of once-secret tunnels and passageways, dating back over 900 years.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

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.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

The opulent home that inspired Tintin's Marlinspike Hall and the adventures within.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.

This elaborate hole in the ground was built as a sacred site for an ancient civilization.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.