Places aestheticsnafu Wants to Go

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

Seven dragon statues—including one that breathes real fire—are scattered throughout the streets of Krakow.

Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

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

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

This vivid painted ceramic sculpture evokes the expansiveness of the prairie sky.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

This 19th-century ghost town offers a stunning view of Lake Michigan and a journey through the region's industrial past.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

An imposing pair of sphinxes stand guard outside this Egyptian Revival tomb.