Places aryarpeggi Wants to Go

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

This trio of reliefs—an ear, a mouth, and a pair of eyes—carved into the walls of flooded quarries is a monument to spying.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.

Towering sandstone rock formations where 'The Chronicles of Narnia' was filmed.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

Every part of this unusual home is built into the sandstone rock.

Of all the houses that grace this neighborhood, only one is a testament to surreal architecture.

Unique house covered in a nightmarish mural of demons, ghosts and monsters.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.