Places frncb Wants to Go

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

A fortress off the West coast of Portugal that dates back to 1502.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A restaurant with an extensive Irish whiskey bar also has several first editions of famous works by Irish authors.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

This former hydraulic laboratory is now a woodland dotted with old engineering models.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.