Places angellj1976 Wants to Go

Rare remnants of the brick-domed ovens birthed in the Durham coalfield during the Industrial Revolution.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.