Places Kris Best Wants to Go

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.

For decades, Hungary's Communist Party insisted this gulag had never existed.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.