Places ekjackson Wants to Go

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

The sad remains of a monument to martial arts legend and movie star Bruce Lee—in the middle of Balkans.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

Colorful concentric circles honor a small Croatian town's supposed spot at the nucleus of it all.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

Croatia's "hairy stone" fortress is one of the most well preserved Istrian castles.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

The only international border marker within the United States.

What is the Thing?

Unfinished monument to peace between Turkey and Armenia, long divided by a dispute over genocide.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.