Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.