Places Dubbnium Wants to Go

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

A constellation of golden cobblestones shows the names of local children born under a full moon.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

This artistic fountain display pays homage to this area's theatrical history.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

A unique showroom for bathroom fixtures featuring a giant toilet observation deck.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.