Places Xoan Wants to Go

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.

No building in the world leans as far as the so-called “Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi.”

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

The extensive relics of an ancient Roman and Phoenician fish processing plant hide in a town park.

Despite its grandiose name, this enigmatic first-century void under the town is no cave, and it's possibly not a palace either.

More than 70 detailed dioramas—including some rather nontraditional ones—fill this charming museum.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

Holding the current title of "biggest chair in the world," it stands with little fanfare in Lucena, Spain.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

London's old-school healing garden.