Places nellynelly Wants to Go

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

A small Oregon museum is filled with a robust history.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

This former cathedral is now a bustling library packed with students and pigeons.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

A purr-fectly spirited bronze celebration of local street felines through history.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.