Places Blondin Wants to Go

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

An enchanting work of outsider art, full of whimsical sculptures and carvings.

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

One of the great treasures of Neolithic art lies within this carefully constructed pile of rocks.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

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

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.