Places lilpuddanesca Wants to Go

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A cave with a continual human presence from 20,000 BC outside of Vela Luka on the island of Korcula.

Inside this small chapel tucked away in the forest is one of the most well-preserved Danse Macabre frescos.

A fantastical display of Croatian folklore, mythology, and myths.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

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

This is where all crows in the surrounding region come to roost from the entire Lower Mainland of Vancouver.