Places Mephisto Waltz Wants to Go

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Statue of Edgar Hernandez, the first victim of swine flu.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

Ukrainian defense contractor's center for studying "pyramid energy."

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.