Places laurathexplorer Wants to Go

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

Incredible labyrinth of man made caves.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.