Places scionthewing Wants to Go

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

The remains of Alfred Nobel's first nitroglycerine factory can still be found on the shores of a Swedish bay.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of December.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.

Camera cars and condom bikes built from scrap and one man's passion.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

A centuries-old fortress city lies in ruin.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.