Places mordekia Wants to Go

Tucked away amongst Leadenhall Market’s cobbled passageways is a whimsical little (literally) attraction.

A witty art installation in an abandoned gas station that became obsolete due to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The guest rooms in this hotel are a tiny castle, a ship built into a tower, and an underground burrow.

It stands tall, honoring the town’s nickname of Ballad Town USA, while paying tribute to the city’s rich history of barbershop quartet singing.

Seeing her husband shot, she took up his banner and rallied the troops to attack repulsing the enemy with the cry, "Those with honor, follow me!"

When the water level in the Danube in central Budapest is low enough, there is a secret site telling the history of one of the most iconic bridges of the city.

The world's first ever Boeing 787 is now the centrepiece of a children's playground and museum.

You can fulfill your childhood dream of becoming a paleontologist by digging for your own amber fossils.

A wonderfully awkward plastic statue of Hollywood's first mayor that no one can quite explain.

A bronze memorial to Tallinn’s most famous, and most elusive, stray dog, erected while he was still alive.

The sculpture of a man sitting in the middle of the square holds great significance for the young nation of Kosovo.

A hauntingly preserved early 20th-century industrial flour mill featuring a grand central tower, ornate spiral staircases, and original milling machinery left untouched.

It's a massive, rusted fountain that survived an earthquake in 1988.

It's a memorial to the beloved, ugly carpet that adorned the Portland airport (PDX) for 30 years.

It is the oldest remaining stairway William Penn created to give Philadelphia citizens access to the port area.

A station imagined at the speed of light, where familiar fixtures slip out of place.

Over 80 miniature sculptures around Uzhhorod old town that depict Transcarpathian history and culture.

A monorail that was built to serve a new development but technical problems, lack of users, and a pandemic caused it to be closed and abandoned.

At one of Oslo’s most-visited buildings, few notice the painting that has mocked its architect for 70 years.

This beloved piece of street art mysteriously vanished, only to reappear in its original location after some much-needed TLC.

Cool Soviet-era public sculpture outside the Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences on Chuy Ave.

A 5,000-pound fiberglass channel catfish perches on the banks of the Red River, occasionally taking a swim when spring floodwaters rise.

Pick up the receiver of this ordinary-looking phone booth and more than ten hours of voices, music, laughter and memories from the past come unexpectedly back through the line.

It's a fantastical local history museum with real stories -- including the first, and longest operating, traffic signal.