Places sharong Wants to Go

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

The world's largest permanent architectural projection display entertains audiences nightly with 28-story light shows.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

Mythical beasts symbolizing the city of Tokyo guard a historic bridge.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

This Dalecarlian horse is about the size of a pinhead.

The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

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

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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.