Places guen0062 Wants to Go

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Underwater roads undetectable from the surface used for escape routes from foreign invaders.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.