Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

“And the Lord said unto Johan, build for thee an ark for the end of the world is approaching.”

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Dutch woodpile home in the forest.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

A small collection of magic tricks and memorabilia is now an apartment-sized museum.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

Oslo's historic toboggan run has been letting thrill seekers slide from train stop to train stop for over a century.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

Canada shows its hockey pride with a giant stick.

This hauntingly stark structure is a relic of an industrial past.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.