Places Edited by Johan SWE

Take a schvitz just like an infamous Soviet dictator while his unblinking eye looks on.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

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

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Over 9,000 brains collected between 1945 and 1982 demonstrate the results of untreated mental illness.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

A wellspring of creativity in an already artsy East London neighborhood.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Men in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating."

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

There are no crying babies in this neck of the woods.