Places CaptainFloche Wants to Go

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

This building has two facades of clashing architectural designs.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.

The medieval prince founded the first library in Ukraine at Saint Sophia's Cathedral where he was interred.