Places Edited by Johan SWE

Down this Cracovian street resides a plaque with a stark message about the city's air pollution.

This innocuous-looking button may have been used to assassinate a king.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

A local student's chance encounter with Keith Haring led to the creation of one of Europe's largest murals.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

At first glance, this area seems like just another city park, but the lush landscape hides a dark past.

This declassified Cold War bunker hosts a large collection of Swedish aircraft.

A prehistoric geological oddity tucked behind Stockholm's natural history museum.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

An "evil painter" included pointed symbols in this artwork to poke fun at members of the Danish Parliament.

Look closely, and you'll see this rusty man is crying.

A tiny village is home to the world's only diner completely devoted to the many varieties of traditional Swedish dumplings.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

An Elvis superfan built Denmark's own version of Graceland.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

This museum is a portal to 20th-century Denmark.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

Walking through this narrow gorge will make you feel like you've fallen into a fairytale landscape.