Places Steve 55 Wants to Go

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

One of the most spectacular 18th-century bridges in Scotland.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Every September, international competitors flock to the flooded quarries of a tiny Scottish island.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

This enchanting hill is home to fairy lore and a sinister local mystery.

A father's love for his son has weathered the test of time in this whimsical garden of outsider art.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

These unique stained glass windows were designed by local children using a modern flair.

In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

A memorial to the thousands of political dissidents imprisoned during the 40-year period of martial law in Taiwan.