Places Malyk Wants to Go

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

A student driver's nightmare.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.