Places Plerpo Wants to Go

An adorable intake tower with a “witch hat” stands in the Edo River.

This atmospheric pre-war building is home to one of the few manually operated elevators left in Tokyo.

This burial pyramid in central Ireland is thousands of miles and thousands of years away from its Egyptian inspiration.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Follow lines from a W.B. Yeats poem through interconnecting gardens designed to appeal to each of your senses.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.

The remains of this deep, dark mine have left behind a haunting rocky warren of tunnels.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

A 300-year-old cottage decorated with tens of thousands of seashells arranged in intricate patterns.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

The old church, buried by the 1784 Mount Vesuvius eruption, is a remarkably well-preserved place where people now pray for the souls of the dead.

This tiny islet has somehow housed an ancient temple, two monasteries, a church, a fortress, and a restaurant.