Places Dubbnium Wants to Go

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

An arresting arch punched straight through a mountain provides one of the most scenic spots, and challenging climbs, on the planet.

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

Stuffed people arranged in unsettling scenes give a voyeuristic glimpse of life within a historic old hotel.