Places Blondin Wants to Go

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

The oldest cemetery of modern-day Athens blends the modern and ancient worlds.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

Vaucanson's most famous automaton, brought back to life.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.