Places Ursa Wants to Go

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

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Northern Ireland's church-turned-skate park.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

A miniature village mimics the surrounding buildings so well it includes itself.