Places Ursa Wants to Go

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

This Luxembourg cave is covered in cryptic looking marks left by mining activity.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

David Sedaris called it "The greatest shop in the world."

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

An open-air sewer system that was covered piece-by-piece over 300 years.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

This gruesome biblical parade celebrates the one day a year that a bit of Jesus' blood turns to liquid.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.