Places johnw404 Wants to Go

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

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

The only monument to name all of the passengers and crew who died on the RMS Titanic.

Spiral alpine structure provides an alternative experience of viewing the Matterhorn.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

Lucerne's central prison was converted into a tourist hotel with a bare minimum of changes.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

For nearly 2,000 years this church has been waging war on local snakes by importing cats.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

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

After a night ravaged by bedbugs, it's said King John ordered the creation of this weathervane.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.