Places alfran Wants to Go

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

Hundreds of "animals" created from scrap metal, alongside a collection of other oddities.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

A monument dedicated to a lone, brave invader.

A bridge to rival those in nearby Venice but without the crowds.

A series of metal trumpets in the heart of Ruma represents the seven Vojvodina People's Liberation Brigades.

An installation that makes understanding the size of the universe a walk in the park.

Positioned outside a church, this sinister folkloric figure incited protests in both 1902 and 2002.

Belgrade’s oldest restaurant has a rather unusual name.

A unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia—a very different time in Croatian history.

Maze-like streets filled with vibrant murals draw visitors to this Istrian town.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.