Places moniquesofo Wants to Go

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

An unsettling sculpture of a boy hanging out in a street in Ghent has been baffling visitors for years.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.

A naturally occurring amphitheater carved by erosion into the mountainside.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

An underground city of salt.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

This tranquil urban park has a violent history.

An abandoned 6th-century monastery features a medieval map of the known world.

An ancient tomb that still stands in Portugal.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

This charming candle shop has been in business since 1789.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.