Places beav Wants to Go

An old Dutch lightvessel is now stuck in a dock near the mouth of the Suriname River.

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.

This abandoned gold mine found a second life as a post-apocalyptic film set.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This artistic fountain display pays homage to this area's theatrical history.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Giant granite sculptures representing family on the northern coast of Spain.

This panoramic lift provides a futuristic ride up San Pedro Mountain.

A spectacular walk on the flank of a gorge.

Two towns are linked by an engineering marvel masquerading as a boring suspension bridge.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

A village of art and exotic creations.