Places sndikic Wants to Go

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

Art and a pun, all in one.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

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

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

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

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.