Places Rainer Heer Wants to Go

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

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

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

This star-shaped artillery fort protected the mouth of the Thames from the 16th century to the Second World War.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.