Places Luis Morato Wants to Go

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

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

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

This imposing modern citadel started out as a home renovation project.

This remarkable prehistoric town is full of watchtowers and houses that have withstood thousands of years.

A stick-sprouting statue watching a duo of disembodied dancing deities.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

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

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

Containing a personal collection of more than 1,200 jugs from around the world.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.

This enchanting hamlet carved into the rock looks like something straight out of Tolkien's Rivendell.

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