Places Natasha Leyk Wants to Go

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

The great Danube river starts here.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This architectural stunner is one of the few surviving Egyptian Revival theaters in the U.S.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.