Places Wennyth Wants to Go

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

One of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens in the world.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

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

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

The middle finger of modernity.

This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

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