Places Kris Best Wants to Go

Memorial for the woman who invented the coffee filter

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

A red-brick former uranium-ore sorting facility, located within a communist-era forced-labour camp.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

Tucked away amongst Leadenhall Market’s cobbled passageways is a whimsical little (literally) attraction.

It's a massive, rusted fountain that survived an earthquake in 1988.

A hauntingly preserved early 20th-century industrial flour mill featuring a grand central tower, ornate spiral staircases, and original milling machinery left untouched.

These high mineral baths were used by Roman soldiers, royals, and the military before opening to the public in 2005.

A monumental palace that began as a stock exchange, became the headquarters of Hungarian Television, and spent years largely unused.

This train station's platforms were built extremely narrow to deceive a rather arrogant government official

The mausoleum of a national hero of Albania is placed in a former church and mosque

Dark relics of one of the largest explosives factories of the Third Reich

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

The world's largest monastic library is also a baroque artistic masterpiece

A forgotten Art Deco department store in central Budapest, where faded socialist-era retail grandeur meets the haunting beauty of urban decay.

This iconic building , which is very evocative of the county of Cheshire, is a genuine gem of Tudor, black and white, timber-framed architecture .

An abandoned WWII-era U.S. Army megaproject, turned hiking trail in the remote Canadian subarctic.

What was once an ordinary pedestrian tunnel under Gorizia Castle has been transformed into an immersive artistic experience.

The unusual burial site of a globetrotter, eccentric, adventurer, war hero, landscape designer, dandy, and writer.

Power line with pylons on huge concrete bases to prevent terrorist attacks.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

A towering relic of Upper Silesia’s industrial past, the blast furnace of Huta Pokój stands as a monumental reminder of the region’s former role as one of Central Europe’s most important iron and steel production centers.

This alluring underground library, hidden in a suburban Metro station, features a Space Age aesthetic and its own hydroponic garden.

Legendary pedestrian bridge in the centre of Romanian city Sibiu.