Places Flaneuse Wants to Go

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A plaque on the base of this statue holds a bewitching design.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

This large sculpture of white plates and forms is actually a huge sound amplifier.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

An architectural oddity of six stories, accessed by graceful ramps.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

This church looks more like a spaceship than a house of worship.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

The summer residence of a Spanish ambassador who brought viticulture to an impoverished region, sparking its transformation into one of the world's best wine regions.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

Even in semi-retirement, the ‘godfather of modern Slovenian cuisine’ still presides over this institution.