Places Skurkey Wants to Go

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

"Would you like your sangria in an IV bag, or straight-up?"

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.