Places vanmechelen74 Wants to Go

Hideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed gods.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A pocket of serenity in hectic Buenos Aires, complete with a peaceful courtyard and massive library.

The humble tomb of an Argentine general, hand-built by his son using stones brought down from the Andes.

A mysterious architectural gem in one of the most elegant areas of Buenos Aires.

This magnificent abandoned hotel has long been haunted by its Nazi past.