Places Luki Wants to Go

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An undulating wicker beast looms peacefully atop a sand dune in Belgium.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

When this funny little building went up in the 19th century, most people thought it would simply fall over.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

The world's longest and deepest train tunnel.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.