Places anastasiyakazachenka Wants to Go

For a century and a half, this great beech stood bearing a carefully carved 20-line poem. Now this stone and plaque are all that remain.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

A plaque in Madrid’s West Park marks the launch of a queer icon’s unlikely media career.

A masterpiece of Rationalist architecture in the center of Madrid with lizards on it.

Hidden under a center for the elderly are the dungeons which were used during the Spanish Inquisition.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

Nicknamed the "Spirit of Paul Klee," this colorful apartment building features an array of multicolored panels.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

This postmodern apartment block was designed to be a vertical neighborhood.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Scrap material from around Eritrea finds a new life at this outdoor market, where upcycling is a lifestyle.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

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

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."