Places sndikic Wants to Go

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This 11th-century structure is one of the oldest churches in Romania.

This Transylvanian church has changed its denomination four times.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

These 18th-century paintings of Warsaw were used to reconstruct the city after World War II.

This enormous 32-foot painting depicts Poland's greatest medieval battle in glorious detail.

William Smith's iconic "map that changed the world" is hidden behind a curtain in the Geological Society building.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

Mysterious face-like images that appeared within an Andalusian house are surrounded by legends of the paranormal.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

A rather vulgar example of the transition from Latin to the Italian vernacular.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

Underground monastery and fortress.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.