Places Nyssa Wants to Go

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.