Places summermaddux Wants to Go

According to Greek mythology, this natural spring is the home of a freshwater nymph.

Legend holds that the Ancient Greek goddess of love once bathed in the waters of this grotto.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.

Designed to serve primarily the Maharaja, this is an interesting variation on the traditional stepped well.

This cascade of mineral-rich hot springs and waterfalls is an oasis in the Jordanian desert.

For decades, vendors have sold clothes once worn by American soldiers who stormed Italy in the 1940s.

Opulent period costumes and murals lead you on a journey through fashion history.

The feminist fashion collective centering Palestinian craftsmanship and radical transparency.

Monumental sculptures guard many of the graves, transforming this necropolis into an open-air fine art museum.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

A bizarre philosophy-themed park founded by an occult expert.

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.