Places preciousnanci965 Wants to Go

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.

The Isle of Wight’s “Island Line” serviced by former London Underground trains from the 1930s.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

Home to several unusual artifacts, including a huge painting of George Washington.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

The surviving pieces of an ancient aqueduct that may have fed into the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

A sacred lake with thousands of sacred carp and a biblical history.

This Asheville chair museum wants to revive a dying art.

A giant rooftop ride with unbeatable views of Matsuyama city, the nearby mountain ranges, and the Inland Sea.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.