Places INK Wants to Go

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

Heralded as one of the prettiest castles in all of Czechia.

Unique house covered in a nightmarish mural of demons, ghosts and monsters.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

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

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.