Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.