Places Lisa De Vriese Wants to Go

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

A ghostly and forgotten art deco bathhouse by the windy shore of Dunkirk, weathered but still standing.

These pastel-colored homes were built when the island of Macau was a Portuguese colony.

The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

Only seven masters are keeping the tradition of Hong Kong’s vanishing neon signs alive.

This cha chaan teng’s pineapple buns are so sought-after that they sell 5,000 a day.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

This museum is filled with an eclectic collection of unique inventions.

Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.

The world's first transgenic bovine has been preserved at the museum where he spent his final years—though his old stable is now a cafe.

Unknown to many, this is where items not displayed in a Dutch history of science museum are held.

This institution has been serving up some of the best pancakes in the Netherlands for over a century.

One of the great math minds of the 17th century is underfoot in this 900 year old Dutch church.

This early 19th-century graveyard is the final resting place of Vincent van Gogh's mother.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

One of the oldest masonic temples in the Netherlands, built in 1757.

This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A nondescript building is home to a one-room museum filled with an overwhelming array of art and objects.

This collection of lurid religious statues tell the tales of a saint who stood down the devil.

This 19th-century zoological collection has withstood the test of time.