Places stonoceno Wants to Go

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

A former suicide bridge is now accumulating symbols of love instead of a body count.

A botched 18th-century canal silenced one of Sweden's most magnificent waterfalls.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

A huge cathedral single-handedly constructed by one eccentric monk.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

Famed architect Antoni Gaudi built this generous thank you gift to a friendly host who housed him during a job.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."