Places missellie Wants to Go

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.

This 13th century Gothic brick castle is the largest in the world by surface area.

One of the oldest lighthouses in the world has been in continuous use since it was first built in 1531.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

This impressive coastal fortress was destroyed before it was finished.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

A medieval village, with red wooden cottages around a stone church, stands as a well-preserved example of a settlement type that was once common in northern Sweden.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

A collection documenting Nazi occupation of Norway, including a painting believed to be made by Hitler.

This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

A naturally occurring tunnel in this Nordic mountain makes it look like it's been shot.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

Once part of a magnificent Tudor palace, this wine cellar is a time capsule underneath the Ministry of Defence.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Behind one of the world's most impenetrable vaults is a massive collection of retail silver.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

The childhood home of Earth's alien chameleon is a humble Brixton flat.