Places cait7911 Wants to Go

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

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

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

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

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

The place where World War I began.

Relics from as far back as the 16th century are on display in a city known for its playing card industry.

This annual Belgian water race attracts bathtub captains from all over the world.