Places Oubliette Wants to Go

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Gargantuan pots of slow-cooked lamb, noodles, and red wine feed everyone at a Mallorcan harvest festival.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.