Places sashacollecutt Wants to Go

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

Built over an abandoned train yard, this hidden gem is full of winding paths and offers gorgeous views of Sydney Harbour.

The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.

This long line of cement defensive wedges is named after the famous chocolate bar for obvious reasons.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This large copper bolt represents the benchmark for measuring sea levels in most of Europe.

The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.