Places JMdV Wants to Go

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

A communal oasis on Lake Zurich.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Last remaining nuclear missile base in Ukraine.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.