Places ThrillSeeker Wants to Go

Extraordinary animals sculpted from leftover junk.

This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.

More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.

This cairn marks the only place where Central European Time, Eastern European Time, and Further-eastern European Time meet.

This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A pastry shop specializing in Sephardic sweets serves historic recipes in Ribadavia’s Jewish quarter.

Down this yellow brick road, visitors are treated to toadstool houses and massive mushroom sculptures.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

This magnificent castle grew from a small Moorish fortress, and reportedly inspired two iconic Disney castles.

A pair of gigantic baby heads greet passengers at Atocha Station.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

These "mermaids" that surround a plaza in Segovia are rather sphinx-like.

An automaton perched above an classic clock and watch store

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

The facade of this 16th-century building is decorated with carvings of 300 seashells.

This historical manor is complete with a magnificent garden.