Places miodek Wants to Go

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

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

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

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

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

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

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

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

This small town's local tradition is to create the world's tallest ice pillar.

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

"Only the dead get off at Kymlinge."

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.