Places tobywatfa Wants to Go

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

A wellspring of natural Viagra found in Bosnia.

This abandoned Croatian stronghold never saw a great deal of conflict but it is still a beloved relic nonetheless.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.