Places chantal Wants to Go

Explore the subjective dream of a hotel.

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

One man's stunning attempt at eco-friendly living.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

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

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.