Places Andrea IX Wants to Go

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.