Places Leininho Wants to Go

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

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

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

An icy lake tucked among jaw-dropping alpine panoramas.

A suspended footbridge allows for traversing this gorge carved through the French Alps.

A stunning bridge that appears as if it's lunging to the shore, and has a legend of a devilish architect.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

Explore the quarry where the marble was sourced for Michaelangelo's David.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A crumbling World War I fort that is reached through a series of concrete tunnels.

An unmistakable facial pareidolia in the Julian Alps also includes a fantastic tale.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

An otherworldly alpine pasture in Slovenia with historical ties to WWII and architecture that recalls Middle Earth.

Apparently, Hell has waterfalls in Slovenia.

The summer residence of a Spanish ambassador who brought viticulture to an impoverished region, sparking its transformation into one of the world's best wine regions.

This was the second largest mercury mine in the world and one of the oldest preserved mine complexes in Europe.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.