Places Jason C Wants to Go

This open-air sculpture museum is located under a bridge in the center of Madrid.

This enigmatic Iberian sculpture of uncertain origin may have once guarded a burial site.

Legend has it that the water from this fountain has miraculous healing properties.

The unusual burial site of a globetrotter, eccentric, adventurer, war hero, landscape designer, dandy, and writer.

A tree meticulously shaped and trimmed into the shape of an elephant.

Hidden 2600-year-old Urartian tomb is located in close proximity to a busy shopping mall.

Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.

Art and concrete merge into a single entity within a WWII bunker that possesses a deeply storied and turbulent history.

The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

A map store filled with original Cold War era Russian maps of the world.

Latvia’s first skyscraper, nicknamed ‘Stalin’s birthday cake.’

The European Union’s tallest freestanding structure provides radio and television broadcasting to half of Latvia.

A former graveyard for Riga’s elite is now a large park with elegant monuments.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

A carved figure embodying the palace’s pint-sized but protective spirit rooted in local folklore.

This 12th-century castle majestically overlooks the city and the beautiful Mosel River valley.

A curious memorial to the Berlin Wall, German division, the war, and those who died at the wall.

This section of the Art and History Museum's collections at the Cinquantenaire explores the symbolism of the heart in Western society.

Multiple versions of this horned sculpture, tied to local legend, have been stolen over the years.

A beautifully preserved and hidden 16th-century alleyway, tucked behind an unassuming door.