Places petrolwife Wants to Go

This is Bremen’s oldest historic district, famous for its labyrinth of narrow medieval alleys lined with tiny, colorful 15th-century houses that resemble beads on a rope.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

This Slovenian museum houses the country's largest collection of painted beehive panels.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

This archaeological site built into a tuff outcrop is filled with rock dwellings, the ruins of a medieval castle, and a necropolis.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

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

Amalfi's pre-industrial history is slowly being engulfed by the lush vegetation of the Ferriere Valley.

This unique rock formation is quite the local celebrity, although one day it may come crashing down.

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

A purr-fectly spirited bronze celebration of local street felines through history.

Relocated graffiti- and street-art exhibition space in a former national railway warehouse.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.

This lonely rock has been turned into a character loved and feared by children.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

An Italian hillside ghost town.