Places labohemefiona Wants to Go

A small museum contains one of the largest collections of ethnic and traditional headgear in the world.

A stone marker and sculpture in the city of Riga stake a claim for the very first community Christmas tree.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Legend says a witch conjured the world's third largest whirlpool to protect Scotland from a nasty pirate.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.