Places simonele Wants to Go

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Tucked along a river are enigmatic stone carvings created thousands of years ago.

This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

A holy well supposedly infused with a saint's spirit flows within this quaint chapel.

These mysterious mazes carved on the rock may be up to 4,000 years old.

Cornish legend says these ancient circles were people turned to stone for playing hurling on a Sunday.

These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.

Decorated by local artists, the city's utility boxes have become three-dimensional canvases.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.

The 17th-century hacienda where Simón Bolívar spent his last days before dying from tuberculosis.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.