Places michelestraka Wants to Go

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A hidden church in a hidden courtyard tells the story of the Miracle of Amsterdam.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

A rare tour of an aristocrat's private home reveals valuable 17th-century paintings from artists like Rembrandt.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.