Places Edited by Johan SWE

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

A model memorial to the original Odin Tower, the second highest tower in Europe before it was sabotaged by Danish Nazis.

An exhibition of preserved locomotives housed in a 1950s depot shows the history of Denmark's railway.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

This little gallery is devoted to one small town's passion for a very special cheese.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

This stoic bronze soldier stands as a symbol of Russian sacrifice or Soviet oppression, or maybe both.

A former suicide bridge is now accumulating symbols of love instead of a body count.

This giant crucifix is like U2's Joshua Tree for Swedish death metal fans.

A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.