Places martynstyx Wants to Go

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

Debatably clever, or just plain honest hotel advertised as "The Worst Hotel in the World."

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Finland's northernmost zoo is home to the country's only polar bears.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

One of the world's most unusual events combines headbanging and needlework.

The etchings on this narrow channel between two islands bear witness to maritime travelers who have passed through since the Middle Ages.

Underground attraction offering tours of the foundational ruins of a church nave that collapsed in 1674.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Generations have refused to move this doll from its dusty resting place to preserve a castle from a watery fate.

A breathtaking and biodiverse wilderness in the mountain setting of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

A museum of memories in what was once one of the most violent cities in the world.

This 16-foot, 6-ton statue in the singer's hometown doesn't actually look like her.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.