Places Rogier Wants to Go

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

A quarry cum sculpture park where the works of art are chiseled into the very walls.

The bizarre home and sculpture garden of an eccentric artist.

The largest underground church in Europe.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.