Places priestlyblack Wants to Go

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

One of the largest lenses of its kind ever created, this former ship beacon has been brought down to Earth.

This church also serves as a lighthouse complete with a beacon.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

This Roman archeological site is hidden amid a 1930s housing estate.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This former farm In northern Iceland is now a museum, where visitors can tour beautifully-preserved turf houses.

A community-owned museum that celebrates the history of the shipbuilding industry in this part of Nova Scotia.

They call buildings like this "mimetic architecture," but nothing has ever mimicked the taste of Moxie.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.