Places rosiebethcolvin Wants to Go

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Sex curse discovered on ancient tablet in Cyprus.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

Hidden behind musical flora and forgotten for over a thousand years, this cave is now a neon dream.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

The bizarre headgear looks like it was made for a fool, not a king.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.