Places SelinSari Wants to Go

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

This hidden gem is bathed in beautiful natural light.

This mysterious cliffside carving of an ancient Hittite deity has baffled scholars for centuries.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

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

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

Where the high court feasted, frolicked, and high courtesans put their royal lovers' diamonds to the test.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.