Places aRedLetterLife Wants to Go

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

A concrete Picasso in the middle of a student housing complex on the outskirts of Stockholm.

Hidden in plain sight, Sweden's official ordnance datum is now abandoned.

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

This Viking gravestone carved in a rare runic style was dug up from a London churchyard.

A collection of miniature, symbolic sculptures hides in plain sight across Kyiv.

This stack of stones honors a murdered 18th-century woman.

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

This bell stars in a tragic love tale and is said to make wishes come true.

Grab a slice of pizza next to the remains of the "human monkey" who ran for mayor.

This Roman amphitheater is said to be King Arthur's legendary Round Table.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."