Places Archaos Wants to Go

An undulating wicker beast looms peacefully atop a sand dune in Belgium.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

These spindly, stone-capped formations are the product of glacial deposits and thousands of years of erosion.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

One of two electrical towers in Germany that have a pathway constructed through the tower's legs.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Hundreds of caves once used to store grains and animal feed.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.