Places ben Wants to Go

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

Nepal’s last remaining population of wild water buffalo and many other rare species call this reserve home.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

A miniature diorama that recounts the brilliant stories of author and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Two ancient Buddhist temples crown this dramatic rocky pinnacle.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

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

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

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

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

Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.