Places nellie Wants to Go

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.

A plaque honoring a Hungarian hero of Italy is hidden in plain sight in Palermo.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

Gorgeous views of Italian mountains and valleys form the backdrop of this unique open-air theater.

This constantly evolving art space saved an Italian town from its own crippling reputation.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

A precariously balanced goose-shaped boulder with a dark legend.

This Scottish museum is the only one in the world to focus not on one religion but all of them.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

Hidden in a Scotland museum is a copse of extinct tree stumps.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Artist's eccentric property excessively decorated with found objects and work of his own.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.