Places skopke Wants to Go

These docile dragons are ideal inhabitants for the conservatory greenhouses.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

A set of seven houses, each built in a style that represents a European country.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

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

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

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

A missing Roman legion was recreated in sculpture along a Scottish cycling route.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

A mysterious plaque to the even more mysterious "Fr. Pat Noise," killed in "suspicious circumstances."

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.

For over 500 years this timbered alms house has provided a home for elderly residents of Coventry.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.