Places kattowice Wants to Go

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare enter it.

An abandoned 6th-century monastery features a medieval map of the known world.

Distressing images of the Last Judgement adorn the walls of this medieval sanctuary named for St. Patrick.

A monument to peace, built by one man over the course of 25 years.

This bathhouse includes an option to soak in radioactive water.

The eccentricities of a former lord include painted pigeons of his manor house, a series of pointless plaques, and a folly built simply to peeve the public.

This Great Dunmow pond was a breeding ground for medical leeches, as well as the testing ground for the world's first lifeboat.

The “bridge of return” is haunted by a myriad of legends, from ghosts to demons to nuptial superstitions.

This may be the world's only drive-through windmill.

Rumored to have been frequented by Vincent van Gogh, it's the only remaining genever producer in the Hague.

Now a museum, this building was once a 14th-century monastery and the place where the founder of the Dutch nation lived and was assassinated.

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.

A journey through the history of medicine throughout the centuries.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

The world's largest collection of fire-fighting items dating back almost 350 years.

It is said that coins washed in the waters here will miraculously multiply.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

The ruins of a military fortification sit atop this mountain.

Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

Underground attraction offering tours of the foundational ruins of a church nave that collapsed in 1674.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.