Places zichk Wants to Go

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This remarkably well-preserved mosque stands amid an 11th-century caravansary.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.