Places nejuum Wants to Go

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

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

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

The world's only surviving Inglis Bridge allowed for fast deployment during WWI.

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

For more than a century, Parisians have come for affordable dishes in a grand converted train station.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

One of Jeff Koons’s largest sculptures and his first commemorative work.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.