Places gaetanrecly Wants to Go

This is no ordinary coffee chain outlet—it's an architectural masterpiece.

Japan’s only surviving winding tower.

It is rumored that if you spot this little golden frog hiding in plain sight, good luck will come your way.

A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.

In the oldest zen temple stands a descendant of the very tree that introduced tea to Japanese culture.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

The chefs at El Diablo use heat generated by an active volcano to cook the food.