Places missellie Wants to Go

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

A place to see how French aristocrats lived in the early 1900s.

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

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

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

This heart-shaped island looks substantially less lovely after a recent bulldozing project.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

The world's first and only museum dedicated to dachshunds.