Places ElisePoulain Wants to Go

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

A gift from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his wife.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

This museum offers a journey back to the Belle Epoque era of Romania.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.