Places sofiajstenfeldt Wants to Go

A 1930s Art Deco swimming pool with a design inspired by grand ocean liners.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.

This trail follows unique stone railroad tracks and a historic waterway to the south coast of Devon.

A historic holy well hidden near a charming English park.

Sweden's southernmost prehistoric rock art is hidden just outside Gothenburg.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

The grounds and buildings of an old wood pulp mill have been transformed into an innovative art park and museum.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

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

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

A museum dedicated to telling lies in service of the truth.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.