Places mdcrowley Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

This former medieval prison now unlocks Estonia’s rich photographic history.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A massive sculpture of an obscure Celtic coin that has become a symbol in Slovakia.

Remnants of an old bank adorn this station's brick wall.

These sculptures honor the knights who once called Carrickfergus Castle their stronghold.

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Prypiat after the Chornobyl disaster.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

The middle finger of modernity.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.