Places pleiades Wants to Go

These plaques located in a court preserve a small piece of Edinburgh's history.

This severely painted building has a twisted connection to the witch hunts of the 1640s.

Dedicated to the Father of the British Fire Service.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

Nestled in the hills of Crete, a local artist has created a wonderland of stone and terracotta sculptures.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

This Ottoman-era Greek Orthodox Church was built to honor Agia Pareskevi, a Christian saint.

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.