Places novalinne Wants to Go

The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.

In the middle of a Brussels roundabout, a cargo container balancing on its edge.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

A small museum built by a family that survived the Siege of Sarajevo.

The first mosque in the world to receive electricity.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

The last Victorian market in Belfast.

A giant sculpture of the legendary "Salmon of Knowledge" celebrates the return of fish to Belfast's River Lagan.

This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.

Documenting the nationalist movement in Northern Ireland, with an emphasis on the history of political prisoners.

These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.