Places otidk Wants to Go

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

A tree planted by Marie Curie is treasured by the Radium institute that she set up.

In the summer, the area around this sculpture transforms into a vibrant concert venue.

At night, this memorial illuminates a ghostly outline of a footbridge that connected two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto.

One of the world's largest collections of medieval religious art.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Did he come up with a theory of cosmic-ray showers while sitting in this bath?

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.