Places umweber5 Wants to Go

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

This small red school was where Germany signed their surrender during WWII.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

The final resting place of the "father of special effects."

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

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

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Now a memorial, this factory was once used as a concentration camp for artists by the Vichy government.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.