Places derWaliser Wants to Go

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

This hill is known for its connection to the occult in Slavic tradition.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

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

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.