Places Malyk Wants to Go

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.