Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

A once-secret library of Freemason history in Catalonia.

This Funeral Hearse Museum represents the finest in cadaver transportation.

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

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Once designed as a natural history museum, this building is now home to a massive art gallery.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

Enter this small nook and you'll be surrounded by 360 degrees of street art.

This unassuming shed was the stage for a monumental event in British history.

A medieval device used to punish and shame wrongdoers still hangs outside the village church.

This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.

A shiny sculpture celebrating the mighty mollusk.

This ordinary-looking mailbox has a rather explosive history.

Every New Year's Day, locals don gaudy costumes and dive into the frigid Firth of Forth.

The bell that once tolled atop a lost Edinburgh gate now hangs for all to see.

This enormous, elaborate tomb looks oddly out of place next to a suburban Edinburgh bowling club.

These characters from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel stand in an unlikely place.

A poetic monument to the Scottish Parliament.