Places nickontheedge Wants to Go

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

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

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

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

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

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

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

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

A popular legend claims that the famous pizza was invented at a restaurant in this alley.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

The middle finger of modernity.