Places Mathias Van de Velde Wants to Go

The great Danube river starts here.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

Whimsical wash tubs row down the stream as part of this Carnival celebration.

Eccentric sculpture garden brings Basque mythology to life.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

Winston Churchill painted this lake during his stay Woolsack Castle in the Landes forest.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The bizarre home and sculpture garden of an eccentric artist.

A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

More than 140 granite sculptures decorate the lawn of this French sculptor.

One man's fifteen-year diversion lead to a garden of intriguing sculptures.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

The ruins of a medieval castle linked to the murderous French lord that inspired the famous legend of Bluebeard.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Beautiful carved tunnels.