Places bcmonsell Wants to Go

A favorite with sightseers and locals alike, this Norwegian funicular provides easy access to a stunning view of Bergen and its environs.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

A museum dedicated to Norwegian music, old and new alike.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

Quality time with reindeer in the stunning scenery of their natural Lappish habitat above the Arctic Circle.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

One of the finest surviving Irish tower houses, with 17th-century cannonball scars still lodged in the wall above the entrance.

A life-sized mastodon statue commemorates the remarkable discovery of 80,000-year-old mastodon remains in a nearby Nova Scotia gypsum quarry.

The hidden chapel that keeps getting forgotten over the centuries