Places paulb4223 Wants to Go

Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

Ancient rock-hewn town that witnessed key events of Georgian history.

Underground monastery and fortress.

The world's tallest statue of a woman wields the world's tallest sword and is at risk of toppling over.

In Costa Rica's cloud forest, the roots of a woody ficus create a botanical bridge.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.