Places Luki Wants to Go

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

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

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

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

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

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

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

This Tuscan lake hides a 13th century town that is still visible when the water recedes.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A mysterious artist-run cabinet of curiosities and library.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.