Places vgswanson Wants to Go

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

Deep in the countryside lie the remains of one of the grandest Roman dwellings in Britain.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.