Places johnw404 Wants to Go

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

An unusual house built using an iso-elastic membrane.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

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

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.