Places Ursa Wants to Go

Hilltop garden on the site of an old fortress overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

This military tunnel dates back to World War II and provides visitors with a little wartime adrenaline.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Get your meal delivered via pneumatic at this former post office.

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

This backcountry hut was home to an asbestos miner and his wife for 40 years.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Old Muslim cemetery and resting place of folkloric creatures

An independent bookstore and press with a large collection of local and English-language literature.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

A beautiful 1920s tower filled with local hidden gems.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

New Zealand's oldest prison holds a dark history and the scars of a deadly earthquake.

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Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.