Places thanesiel Wants to Go

These lesser-known Maltese catacombs date back over 1,700 years.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

Traveling this mountain pass reveals quaint stone buildings, stunning Irish scenery, and a bridge said to grant wishes.

Wander among the abandoned ruins of this once-powerful medieval town.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.