Places Jason C Wants to Go

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This large copper bolt represents the benchmark for measuring sea levels in most of Europe.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This ordinary street was made infamous by a legendary visit from the devil.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.