Places novalinne Wants to Go

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This house covered in small stones was the work of one man over the course of nearly 30 years.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

A German artist built a home and garden filled with whimsical art pieces, like a massive, operational volcano.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A replica that won't float away.

A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright built an experimental, partially underground home in the desert.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

A natural bridge formed by limestone travertines in Armenia's Vorotan River Canyon.

Wander through a subtropical island rich with 19th-century colonial architecture, grand pianos, and the reassurance that you won't encounter automobiles.

This pedestrian bridge in Croatia is a sleek, ship-inspired design with a fun net and social spaces.

An underground unique sacred place in the Kazakh steppe in which Sufism and nomadic tradition merge.