Places mkenik Wants to Go

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This saucy statue once caused outrage among locals.

A memorial to honor those who were killed in a Bastille Day terror attack in Nice.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

This tower is one of the best-preserved (and least-visited) remnants of medieval Paris.

When this monument to Slovenia's national poet was erected, it's said to have sparked the ire of nearby church authorities.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

Sip colonial-era cocktails at this monthly recreation of a 1740 watering hole.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

This museum explores how a 1973 volcanic eruption forever changed this small Icelandic island.

Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.