Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

The world's longest known cave system.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

An island graveyard with spectacular views of the Caribbean.

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.

A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

These spectacular, symbolic serpents lie within the shadow of the Great Temple.

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.