Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

The oldest hall in Iceland was written of in the Sagas and features a centuries-old escape tunnel.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.