Places Byrdmouse Wants to Go

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The middle finger of modernity.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.