Places chrissyml Wants to Go

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Museum covers every step of the chocolate-making process, from cultivation to the finished product.

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

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

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

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

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

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

A bridge commemorating the actor's legacy and his Terryville roots.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

More than a century of radio history is told in these displays.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.

The world's largest wooden structure.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.