Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

More than 8,000 drinking jugs say “Cheers!” to a guy named Toby.

An homage to the humble watering can.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This spectacular dome managed to survive after being bombed in World War II, in an event known as the "Miracle of Mosta."

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

An abandoned building that once tightened a power line that stretched across Messina Strait.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.