Places sarahltait Wants to Go

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

A wildlife paradise, this island is one of the world’s most important habitats for burrow nesting seabirds.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.