Places tlacs151 Wants to Go

Visit an imposing 13th-century Transylvanian citadel lurking not far from the region's more heavily touristed attractions.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

An old spa town in the mountains of Romania where, according to legend, the great hero Hercules once bathed.

This 11th-century structure is one of the oldest churches in Romania.

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.

View one man's eccentric collection of nearly 5,000 corkscrews, then sip some Chablis.

The woman who helped save 15th-century France was born in this humble home.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A quaint medieval harbour where Benjamin Franklin landed in 1776.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.