Places novalinne Wants to Go

This Finnish town on the Arctic Circle is trademarked as the Official Hometown of Santa Claus.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

When occupying Nazi troops detonated a mine below, medieval frescoes were revealed in this small cliff-side hermitage.

An underground venue, buried for 200 years, now open as a unique whisky tasting venue.

Oldest World War 2-themed museum in Western Europe.

The “Sistine Chapel” of the Middle Ages merges 11th-century science and religion in wondrous hues.

An Ottoman-era mosque looking over the Black Sea.

A medieval shrine set into a towering canyon wall.

At almost 900 feet long, this is Bulgaria's longest suspension bridge and the only way to reach the small village of Lisitsite.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

A 900-year-old village located in the highland of the Asir region that features historic architecture.

This hike brings visitors closer to Taipei 101, once the world’s tallest building, than any other trail.

A once-shattered school now preserves a visible fault line, showcasing Taiwan's traumatic 1999 earthquake.

Roma who struck it rich in the 1980s built extravagant mansions in this small Romanian town.

Internet rumors, often involving Icelandic singer Björk, have abounded regarding this isolated outcrop of rock.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

One of the holiest Shi'i shrines in Iran honors the life and death of a learned noblewoman who became a saint.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.