Places jbuchli Wants to Go

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Founded in 670, this ancient mosque is an architectural time portal.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

The oldest licensed distillery in Ireland.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

Art Deco and “Wrenaissance” mash-up, this recently restored royal residence has been home to kings and comes with secret monkey passages included.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

The remains of a medieval wall discovered in the basement of a jewelry store.

Devious political maneuvering and four ancient, working telescopes are central to the world's second-oldest observatory.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.