Places balletmecanique Wants to Go

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

A striking memorial recalls thousands of Bolognese men and women killed fighting fascists in World War II.

This building features dozens of faces along its facade, although one is a bit chilling.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

This famous writer's tombstone is a literary pilgrimage site that was publicly defiled by a rival.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.