Places JtotheC Wants to Go

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Located in the thermoelectric factory that once powered the entire city, this Portuguese museum is shockingly fascinating.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

This bike path traverses the treetops.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.