Places alfran Wants to Go

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.

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

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

Once overlooking the town, this church now resides on a permanent tilt.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

Of all the houses that grace this neighborhood, only one is a testament to surreal architecture.

A striking, modern church devoted to a nun who loved God and beer.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

An unusual cave filled with rare alien-looking aragonite formations.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

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

One of the few cold geysers in Europe, its eruptions are powered by carbon dioxide.

Admire dozens of life-size animals made from old scrap metal, nuts, screws, and valves.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.