Places microvroni Wants to Go

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

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

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.