Places krisfreedain Wants to Go

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

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

A memorial to those who died at the hands of the Kuomintang while fighting for communism in China.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A replica of the first seismoscope ever invented.

The histories of modern Chinese literature and anti-Japanese resistance collide in this Shanghai park.

The home where the first Premier of the People's Republic of China worked and lived.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

A temple complex has existed on this site since the third century.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

This under-visited temple is nestled within one of Shanghai's traditional shikumen-style residential blocks.

This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

This film studio and amusement park is considered one of the greatest filming locations in China.

This tunnel looks like a sliver of Shanghai that's stuck in the past.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Belgium's national heroine turned spy sacrificed her life to combat German occupation.

In the middle of a Brussels roundabout, a cargo container balancing on its edge.

This huge limestone slab is considered the largest paving stone in Belgium and a relic of the earliest modern paving in Brussels.

A bronze statue of the fictional character nicknamed "Mrs. Hat" from a beloved Belgian comedy.

One of Hollywood's most iconic actresses was born in an upscale Brussels neighborhood in 1929.