Places rivkaarose Wants to Go

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

These ruins of a medieval church are full of architectural mysteries.

This beautiful Romanesque church preserves stunning medieval frescoes and the excavations of a Roman market town.

This former chapel resides on an island connected to the mainland by one of Shetland's iconic beachy tombolos.

The oldest standing building on Merseyside is special for its rich history as a Benedictine monastery and its unique connection to the origins of the Mersey Ferry.

Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The last remaining example of a painted house from the medieval period in Nice.

Not your average Bosnian cafe — this locale is dedicated to the former Yugoslav dictator Tito.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.