Places pierrehinard59 Wants to Go

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

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

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Cuba's historical trains remind natives of their country's sugary sweet past.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

The oldest and smallest cemetery in Paris is only open to the public twice a year.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.