Places kschaeffer Wants to Go

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

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

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

This library dates back to the late 17th century and was one of the first public lending libraries in England.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

This magnificent arch is all that remains of a former smelt mill.

An iconic waterwheel in the Pennine Hills marks the location of one of Britain’s most profitable lead mines.

These remarkable cascades are the jewels of Upper Tees.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.