Places piegem Wants to Go

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

Deep within the mountains, a towering natural wall of tightly packed basalt columns mimics a colossal ancient fortress built by no human hands.

It's a massive, rusted fountain that survived an earthquake in 1988.

A hauntingly preserved early 20th-century industrial flour mill featuring a grand central tower, ornate spiral staircases, and original milling machinery left untouched.

An operating 19th-century lighthouse just on the southern tip of Sweden.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Overlooking beautiful Rhossili Bay are the remnants of a former World War II radar station.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.

Carved through granite boulder fields and primeval forests, this roaring river valley once served as the secret naval training ground for the legendary Tay Son insurgency.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A 1600-year-old church carved into the rock, with painted frescoes from 900.

This beloved piece of street art mysteriously vanished, only to reappear in its original location after some much-needed TLC.

This mysterious cliffside carving of an ancient Hittite deity has baffled scholars for centuries.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

The legendary wooden horse that stands in modern Troy is a prop from the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen film.

A solitary arbor with a unique pedigree.

This site was constructed as a Cold War-era defense against a Russian invasion.

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 centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Among the best preserved megalithic monuments in the Aragón river valley.