Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

This heart-shaped island looks substantially less lovely after a recent bulldozing project.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A spectacular Bulgarian cave resembling a devil's head with a waterfall rushing down its throat.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

This historic black and white monastery is one of Bulgaria's architectural jewels.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.