Places gertrudeabbring Wants to Go

The highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere.

Museum covers every step of the chocolate-making process, from cultivation to the finished product.

An early 20th-century sanatorium, long abandoned and now being reclaimed by nature.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

A 141-foot wave of crashing lumber guards the entrance to the Grand Place in Mons.

These ruins reveal the remarkably intact layout of a Roman marketplace.

This old, abandoned hotel offers magnificent views.

Stocking up on the world's best beer requires a pilgrimage to a monastery drive-through.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

This monumental mural crafted nearly 40 years ago is still in perfect condition.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

An underground city of ancient quarry tunnels hid thousands of Allied soldiers in WWI.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

A monument to the thousands of Canadian soldiers who died capturing the French ridge during World War I.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

This small museum nestled inside a souvenir shop is dedicated to Sweden's most well-known toy.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

Maybe the only restaurant in the world where your seat will be signed by a Nobel laureate.