Places michelestraka Wants to Go

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This strange statue depicts a young boy's body with an adult Mozart's head and a single wing.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

Tucked away in a Prague park, a statue beloved by romantics honors a poet so nice they buried him twice.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

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

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

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

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.