Places Andre Heinek Wants to Go

A spectacular walk on the flank of a gorge.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.

Squeezing inside this deep, narrow canyon reveals a festival of desert colors.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

These numerous Israeli caves were dug out over hundreds years for reasons ranging from hideouts to burial sites.

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.