Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

A wood-and-steel sculpture garden featuring an artful interplay of nature and machinery.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

One Italian taxi driver covered his entire house in small seashells creating a weird bit of architecture that is preserved to this day.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

Vast network of air raid tunnels beneath Lombardy's capital.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.