Places stevenbeijer Wants to Go

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

A once-fairy tale mansion now stands in a state of disrepair.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

This 15th century pharmacy displays a beautiful collection of ancient medicine jars.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

Automatons that were once removed after one fell from the building.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

This black sand beach was crafted from volcanic explosions including the historic Minoan eruption.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.