Places dominichladek Wants to Go

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

The ruins of a thousand-year-old hermitage are tucked away deep in the sloping forests of Albano Lake.

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

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

A small but very fascinating fountain in the center of Rome with four books and a deer carved.