Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

Salaguti's live-in museum: a fortress against criticism and consumer art.

Numerous sculptures set along hiking trails symbolize and idealize the relationship between man and nature.

An outsider folly near Madrid.

This underground church is topped with a 500-foot cross that is seen by many as a beacon of fascist hubris.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Secret Swing.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Scale model of St. Peter's Cathedral (Rome) in the middle of a small Dutch town.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.