Places Jes Wants to Go

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

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

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

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

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

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

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.