Places Caytastrophy Wants to Go

A magnificent waterfall is also home to the remains of a Roman hydraulic engineering system.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

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

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

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

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

Every Tuesday, students let off steam by screaming into the night air.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.