Places danieldixon Wants to Go

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

If you've ever wanted to tear Hello Kitty apart with your teeth, this is the place.

A pair of trees near a Hong Kong shrine are said to grant wishes, but only the ones they hold on to.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.