Places rbenn250 Wants to Go

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

A colossal statue of a woman hugging a modern building.

An eccentric museum dedicated to Islam Karimov, the former dictator of Uzbekistan.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

This grandiose staircase was part of the revival of a medieval Spanish architectural style combining Christian and Islamic influences.

The preserved wheel ruts of El Camino Real de los Tejas, an 18th-century Spanish colonial road across America's Southwest.

A historic cavernous cistern lies hidden behind a wall at San Marino’s stamp and coin museum.

A home for skateboarders with sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean in Morocco.

Housed in a Japanese colonial-era bank, this cafe pours next-level cold brew.

This impressive gate is the only remaining remnant of a Spanish naval station.

The resolution to a case that had gone cold for 120 years, found on an old piece of wood.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

The first Venetian glass exhibit in Japan and one of the largest in the world.

Step into the past of this Andalusian town through exhibits with traditional tools, local crafts, and cultural artifacts.

Many of the most significant figures in American history once hopped on a stagecoach in this alleyway on their way to more noteworthy destinations.

A stunning example of traditional salt production set against a dramatic volcanic landscape.

A single block in this stone staircase to the temple is mysteriously always wet.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

The remote graves of a Scottish family who died of thirst while attempting to reach St. George.

This abandoned building, which is the second-largest structure on the Maltese island of Comino, has a complicated past.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

Statues of a fire-breather, a clown, and a whole performing troupe celebrate Luxembourg's creative side.

Feast your eyes on the centuries-old statues of the judges of hell.