Places thelonesomeroad Wants to Go

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

Hundreds of secret cabinets built into the walls of legendary poisoner's private work room.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

A restaurant devoted to "trouser grip" wrestling, an ancient form of Viking wrestling that is Iceland's national sport.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.