Places nickelcurry Wants to Go

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

The Indian capital of black magic and witchcraft.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The knock-off oil painting capital of the world.

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The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."