Places SarMarCal Wants to Go

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Once part of a magnificent Tudor palace, this wine cellar is a time capsule underneath the Ministry of Defence.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The haunting ruins of a once-holy church now stand as a forgotten relic of Montreal’s past.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

This high-desert oasis spotlights some of Colorado’s most sacred native plants.

The owners of this Victorian-era estate say it’s still visited by the spirits of long-gone residents.

The railroad turning train travel into a cinematic, highly immersive experience has a fascinating connection to Game of Thrones.

Live your lighthouse keeper dreams at this unique lodging on a Canadian island.

Dive into an undersea optical illusion off the coast of Mauritius.

An ancient oak forest where, legend has it, a wedding party was magically transformed into trees.

This fifth-century church is one of the oldest Christian sites in the Balkans.

Carved wooden graves mark the plots at this cemetery in an old mining town.

Ski or snowshoe your way to a feast in the mountains.

One of the world's best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is also one of the most unusual; it's made of black volcanic rock.

This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.