Places emiliekinss Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

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

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

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

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.