Places wasik Wants to Go

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

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

This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.

Ireland's most northerly island is hauntingly beautiful. Its lighthouse was the last glimpse of home for many Irish emigrants bound for the U.S.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

The remains of a military communications outpost still stand on this Greek island.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.