Places robinvanderlinde Wants to Go

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

This Communist-era residential block is one of the longest residential building in Europe.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

A 1:2 billion-scale solar system leads visitors into this German university town.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

The heaviest gold coin ever minted.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.