Places pleiades Wants to Go

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

Ireland's most northerly island is hauntingly beautiful. Its lighthouse was the last glimpse of home for many Irish emigrants bound for the U.S.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

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.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Since 1999, this bakery has been turning out the dreamiest tortes in the Slovenian capital.

One of the biggest Buddhist stupas in Europe, hidden from most locals.

An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Not far from the more famous House of Juliet, visitors will find the supposed residence of her lover.

The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.

Sip a Negroni Sbagliato in the bar that invented it.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

South of Bologna, a limestone grotto with a protruding waterfall and a floor full of cave pearls.

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.