Places aRedLetterLife Wants to Go

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

A modern, secular take on a traditional Virgin Mary motif.

The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A tribute to a man who defied the Nazis until his last breath.

A tribute to a Ukrainian heroine who went undercover and killed several Nazi operatives.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

17th-century merchants in Bristol nailed their deals by placing money on these pedestals.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

“It has nae lugs!”

The place where World War I began.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.