Places natxosoler Wants to Go

A haunting museum chronicling the bloodiest battlefield of World War I.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

Locals believe this abandoned ruin on the outskirts of Bucharest is haunted.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

The bust of Romania’s most notorious ruler, Vlad Dracula aka "Vlad the Impaler," keeps watch over the ruins of his medieval court.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Historic beer hall in Bucharest with magnificent stained glass and a lively folk band.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.

On a stretch of Danish coast known as "Cold Hawaiʻi," this fishing village has become a surfing town.

A failed attempt to control drifting sands yielded a gnarled sylvan wonderland.

A bronze fountain celebrating a strange, seductive, long-breasted, motherly creature from regional folklore.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.