Places Giz Medium Wants to Go

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Serbia's master of striking memorials erected a forgotten, hidden gem in the hills outside a tiny village.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

This brutalist monument is inscribed with 9921 names of Yugoslav partisans who perished during WWII.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.