Places jackbeyfuss Wants to Go

A small stone memorial marks the spot where a Bristol Beaufort aircraft crashed in 1941.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This mysterious church sits discreetly above the Aude countryside, right in the heart of "Grail Country."

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

One of the most notable figures in the Wurstelprater’s history is often assumed to be a fictional character.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

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

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.