Places monkeydonkey Wants to Go

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

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

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

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.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

This magnificent church allows travelers along one of Germany's busiest roadways a chance to rest and reflect.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

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

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