Places CuriousJ Wants to Go

Learn the incredible story of how an unassuming spa town was transformed into one of the world’s largest uranium mining sites.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

A museum dedicated to the history of the diamond trade in the Netherlands.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

A massive, abstract lookout tower providing a panoramic view of Prague.

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

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

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

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

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

The medieval "Bearded Man" relief still serves as a clever flood warning marker.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

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

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.