Places stonoceno Wants to Go

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe's mysterious black Madonnas.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

Abandoned waterpark turned counter-culture mecca.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

A student driver's nightmare.

Transmission tower outfitted with large crossbars that dampen wind-induced oscillations.