Places Mesi Wants to Go

The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

One of Europe's largest supercomputers is housed inside of a disused chapel.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.