Places cosmobacon13 Wants to Go

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, greets pedestrians between these narrow city streets.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

A replica of the Roman emperor in glorious full color.

A small sanctuary carved into the mountainside near the tallest point in continental Portugal.

This Portuguese bullring is built right into the caldera of an island volcano.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.