Places Kris Best Wants to Go

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

An abandoned construction pit in Munich that turned into an accidental urban lake.

The largest cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to some the richest subterranean biodiversity in the world.

A mountaintop museum of Bond props, sets, and cinematic secrets.

The writer's study, a “portable museum,” is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid.

This abandoned factory once produced Yugoslavia’s iconic Yugo automobile.

Burgers and fries in the shadow of a dreaded Nazi symbol.

A haunting museum chronicling the bloodiest battlefield of World War I.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

This is the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler Vlad III Dracul.

A subtle memorial marks where a human chain protested Soviet control in 1989.

This atmospheric museum honors a family who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation of Latvia.

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

This rustic home is the birthplace of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassin.

This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

One of Amsterdam’s most popular cultural and recreational complexes is on the site of a former gas works.

A unique, playful portrayal of Jesus as a backpacking traveler.

This 500-meter-long memorial pays tribute to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to COVID-19 in the UK.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.