Places loganczar Wants to Go

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

A king's bloodstained shirt is among the gruesome collection of artifacts displayed below Stockholm's Royal Palace.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

These plaques found across Warsaw commemorate the sites where executions or battles took place during the German occupation.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

The Grand Mall in Varna hosts one of the biggest collections of Soviet-era paraphernalia in Bulgaria.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

Housed inside a replica church, its collection honors the Black community displaced by the Halifax government.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.