Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

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

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

18th century underground pilgrimage site, dedicated to a Saint that did something...

France's Lilliputian park displays over 100 of the country's monuments for visitor perusal.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

This Czech military museum is home to pink tank that was once a symbol of art and political rebellion.

Czech architects borrow from the nest design of the stork to revitalize a farmstead, hoping to inspire the same loyalty the birds had shown.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

Each year a new straw behemoth is born.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.