Places mdaschke Wants to Go

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

According to local legend, the devil shattered this column after losing a bet.

A colossal statue of a woman hugging a modern building.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

The rusted creatures wait to be discovered in Prague's botanical garden.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.

An ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons.

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.