Places jamesgillespie Wants to Go

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

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

One of the oldest, well-preserved water treatment facilities in all of Europe.

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

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

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

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

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

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

A unique interactive experience of everyday life in communist Yugoslavia—a very different time in Croatian history.

A World War II evacuation tunnel turned into a history display of Croatian state and people.

A peculiar museum that includes many drunken tales, a drunk driving simulator, and much more.

A tribute to an iconic act of defiance from the Croatian War of Independence involving a small car.

This military tunnel dates back to World War II and provides visitors with a little wartime adrenaline.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.