Places flaneux Wants to Go

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

This sturdy, circular stronghold served as one of the forts that protected the Venetian Lagoon.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.