Places RescueMySoul Wants to Go

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

Inspired by "The Starry Night" this Dutch bike path turns into a glowing work of art each night.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.