Places RakB Wants to Go

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

One of the few places in Portugal where the Celtic ritual of wearing large wooden masks is still practiced.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

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

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

"Alleys of Stone" form natural mazes in Spanish natural park.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.