Places SamS Wants to Go

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.