Places Rogier Wants to Go

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

Artwork tucked within the trees greets visitors with surreal sonic experiences.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The world's fifth tallest waterfall is a spectacular silver chute of water that cuts through the cloud forest in northern Peru.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.