Places mcambis Wants to Go

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

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

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

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

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.