Places Sarah Durn Wants to Go

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This Neolithic stone circle is the most complete of its kind in Scotland.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

The first national memorial to honor all women suffragists stands on land where suffragists were once imprisoned.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

The Vatican of the movie industry turned into an actual church.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This fairytale medieval church in Poland originally spent centuries in Norway.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.