Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

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

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Piran’s oldest square is laden with history and a beautiful 18th-century reservoir.

This building was recently restored to its original 1908 design, showing the old style of Russian summer houses.

Workers have collected salt here in a process virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.

Even in semi-retirement, the ‘godfather of modern Slovenian cuisine’ still presides over this institution.

When this monument to Slovenia's national poet was erected, it's said to have sparked the ire of nearby church authorities.

The only monument in Slovenia celebrating the famous writer, who stayed there for one night entirely by mistake.

Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.

This lush, scenic spot was carved by the turquoise waters of the Radovna.

Seek out ‘The Devil’s Court’ in this concert venue located in a former monastery run by an order of Teutonic knights.

Deep underground, the rusting remains of a German water pumping station from World War II.

This Slovenian museum houses the country's largest collection of painted beehive panels.

Colorful power station with a chimney equipped with a gallery for exhaust monitoring equipment.