Places kalepom Wants to Go

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A house that transports visitors back to Yugoslavia.

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

A model train wonderland hidden beneath Gare de l'Est station.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

The unique design of these skyscrapers in a Paris suburb led to them being nicknamed "cloud towers."

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

A cluster of cylindrical apartment buildings nod to the city’s vegital past.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

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

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.