Places mendelccc Wants to Go

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

A coin-operated model railway tucked inside a busy train station

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Cycling around the Veluwe visitors are treated to a collection of stones from around the world.

A set of beech hedges planted in the 19th century forms a tunnel that takes on a different appearance in every season.

Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

This unusual 7th-century Frankish seal offers more questions than answers about its past.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.