Places Kris Best Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to telling lies in service of the truth.

See more than 150 sculptures, stained glass windows, and famous works of art all rendered in marzipan.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

This gilded emblem was once stolen by a Cookie Monster impostor, who demanded a charitable ransom for its return.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

Blending modern art with Baroque architecture, this wondrous mosaic grotto serves as the late artist's final creation.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

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

One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.

This former railway facility is the oldest in Slovenia, and now houses a museum showcasing the history of steam locomotives.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

Described as one of the Baltic region’s most daring and original construction projects.

This street has over a half-dozen names, all at once.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

The largest park in Lviv is surrounded by a network of disused rail tracks.

This museum explores the tumultuous history of Lviv under Nazi and Soviet occupation.