Places vanmechelen74 Wants to Go

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

A collection of incredible clay crafts, complete with earthen skeletons and mermaids.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

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

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

A hilltop collection of crosses remembering the hundreds of Argentine troops who fell during the Falklands War.

This glacier interpretation center houses the world’s only bar made completely from glacial ice.

A Swiss man built this airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.

Visit this odd display of indigenous style in Argentine wine country.

Are they the remains of a fallen hotel, or the final stronghold for escaped Nazis?

The island houses the ruins of a secret nuclear fusion lab that once employed high-profile Nazi scientists

Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.

This colossal structure and its accompanying angel often play tricks on the eyes.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

The ruins of an ancient mansion sits in front of and underneath a contemporary art gallery.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.