Places Blondin Wants to Go

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Descend into the tunnels to experience the life of a coal miner.

A maze of crosses marks the jumbled divide between the Netherlands and Belgium.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

Sculpture designed by Turkish artist and professor Mehmet Ali Uysal.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.

Legend says lovers who hold hands while venturing along this stone jetty and kiss at the end will remain together forever.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

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

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.