Places pacooper Wants to Go

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

This small island, a byproduct of 19th-century canal construction, is now home to a charming Japanese garden.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.

A tiny, forgotten park of surrealist sculptures in Angouleme.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

A castle-like sea fort from the 17th century is now a museum to oyster farming.

The wreck of a B-29 Superfortress now stands as a memorial left in the moors.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

A historic, reportedly haunted pub that provided inspiration for several famous adventure novels.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A monument dedicated to the unrecognized Black "mother" of modern medicine.

A unique sculpture cemetery dedicated to the region's defunct businesses.

According to legend, a noble knight and a terrible dragon lie beneath this storied hill.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.