Places honzahol Wants to Go

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

An early creation by Erich Mendelsohn.

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

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The great Danube river starts here.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

Inside this unique festival hall, a slide leads guests down to a subterranean watering hole.

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

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

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

Along the Rhine, about a mile from the historic Munster, learn the heartrending story of two lovers torn asunder, cast into unknown layers of time and space.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

The little tuxedo cat survived the trip, then languished in obscurity.