Places peelacres Wants to Go

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

France's third-largest necropolis offers a peaceful respite from a busy port city.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

A surprising relic of WWII, sitting boldly in a Marseille street.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

This art installation at an abandoned lipstick factory has distinct anti-capitalist vibes.

Five mysterious spheres in the wall of a church that puzzle Málaga’s locals.

This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

Atop this library is one of the most beautiful green spaces in Warsaw.

These 18th-century paintings of Warsaw were used to reconstruct the city after World War II.

Legend says this is actually a heartbroken prince waiting for his true love's kiss.

A menacing statue of this mythical creature can be seen at the legendary site of the monster's lair.

This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.