Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

A geometric jumble of homes.

This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

The skeletal remains of the famous hominid "Lucy" were found at this spot.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

The ruins of a Roman fort lie in the shadows of an imposing medieval castle.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.