Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

The world's most famous cheese caves.

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

A collection of 4,000 thimbles that's more versatile than one might imagine.

Small museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern astronautics.

Small French town or alien garage?

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

Ancient man-made caves underneath small town Belgium.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

A sanctuary for wolves in a community which once trembled in fear of the murderous "Beast of Gévaudan."