Places Paolosan82 Wants to Go

This largely abandoned village was home to a bustling mining community in the Soviet era.

Enjoy a slice under the midnight sun at the world’s northermost Domino’s.

Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

The Dublin sea wall draws walkers, photographers, and fishing enthusiasts.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

An eccentric museum dedicated to Islam Karimov, the former dictator of Uzbekistan.

In the garden of a Georgia museum, without any explanation, is a monumental head of the Communist icon.

The most peculiar part of Berlin's public transit network is an on-demand rowboat.

A vivid and terrifying mural blends pop-culture-style depictions of Hell with traditional Orthodox imagery.

A haunted outpost in Moldova, where guards are said to have fired at a ghostly figure.

Burgers and fries in the shadow of a dreaded Nazi symbol.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

Unexpected work of street art in a remote Caucasus mountain town.