Places bertrandbinois Wants to Go

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.