Places Aika Wants to Go

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

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

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A remarkable medieval structure born from a 14th-century disaster.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.