Places wasik Wants to Go

What was once a bustling mining installation is now a bustling hub of contemporary art.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

World's only telecommunication tower with a wooden pinnacle.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.