Places Rogier Wants to Go

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

Four alabaster giants contemplate the tides on the shore of Denmark.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

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

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A deserted 20-lane highway runs through Myanmar's empty capital city.