Places miriamrigg Wants to Go

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

This small, nautical gift shop is home to a 500-pound behemoth.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

A mountain of conch shells created by centuries of fishermen.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

The mounds on this coastal archaeological site reveal the history of the land’s first inhabitants.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

This memorial celebrates the legacy of the British-Norwegian resistance movement during World War II.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

In the Monastery of São Vicente resides a gallery devoted to a breathtaking collection of seashells.

A house and its fence that are entirely covered with sea shells and giant clams.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

This impressive midden of scallop shells apparently all comes from a single fishing company.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.