Places thorne031 Wants to Go

High in the Italian Alps, a lonely chapel with a striking view of the Matterhorn.

This still-celebrated home was a radical architectural experiment in 3D De Stijl.

This disused VLF radio station is no longer in service but the surrounding town still bears its name.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A multi-story, retro videogame time capsule in the Netherlands.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Take a giant yellow bird cage to the top of Elba's highest mountain.

Two ancient yew trees with a chapel and an altar built inside their hollow trunks.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Rainbow arches made of shipping containers grace the entrance to one of France's largest seaports.

A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.

Former 19th-century apothecary serves a top-tier version of Valencia's signature cocktail.

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

The last of three massive blast furnaces that were once at the foundation of the Port of Sagunto economy.

This ancient amphitheater was restored in the early 1990s.

Translating as "The Jump of the Girlfriend," this stunning waterfall has a tragic legend behind it.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

This Renaissance palace features a unique architectural design and is now home to the Ferrara National Art Gallery.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.