Places obstakel Wants to Go

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

It's forbidden to dig within this ancient Roman fort hidden beneath a playground.

This artificial ring island was built to hold cubic tons of polluted dirt.

An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.

This gigantic monument hidden in the woods was built to thank the Dutch for sheltering Belgian refugees during World War I.

An awe-inspiring giant blue whale jaw bone stands in the center of this Dutch island.

Hop aboard a charming bog train to explore this rare open-air museum of peat.

This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.

This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.