Places Grenskozak Wants to Go

Two tombstones associated with the much-beloved children's story.

This ancient spring in central London was featured in a Peter Pan story.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

Tucked away behind the mansions of Mayfair, this picturesque garden is a hidden London treasure with a spooky past.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A building claimed to be London’s smallest house has an obscure history.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A unique tribute to the millions of animals who served and died for the British military.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

The castle in the romantic landscape of Podyjí houses what may be Europe's largest collection of taxidermy dogs.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

This Czech military museum is home to pink tank that was once a symbol of art and political rebellion.

This trio of reliefs—an ear, a mouth, and a pair of eyes—carved into the walls of flooded quarries is a monument to spying.

A nuclear reactor created for Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" campaign is now used for research at a Dutch university.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Prague's "Little Hanoi" is one of the commercial centers of Czechia's Vietnamese community.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

The rusted creatures wait to be discovered in Prague's botanical garden.