Places mgward Wants to Go

A 30-foot-high stream of chocolate flows continuously at the Lindt Home of Chocolate.

Prague's "Little Hanoi" is one of the commercial centers of Czechia's Vietnamese community.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

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

An iron dragon with a long neck covered in feathery scales perched above one of Venice's most popular squares.

A twisted steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center is the centerpiece of this memorial for those who died on September 11, 2001.

Depending on how it is measured, this lighthouse can claim to be the tallest in Europe and the tallest conventional lighthouse in the world.

One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

In medieval times this small stone seat was used as a bizarre way to punish insolvent debtors.

A masterpiece of modern architecture that caused quite a stir in Paris, recreated in Bologna half a century later.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.