Places Nicky Pryde Wants to Go

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

A mansion where wonders of Christmas are celebrated all year long.

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

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A larger-than-life statue of the German revolutionist stands proud in a small town where he never lived.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

A devastating landslide accidentally created this tourist hotspot.

The community gathered on this stone table to make important decisions, but it was also the site of witch trials.

Polish luminaries and masterful folk art find sanctuary in this unique cemetery.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This trail was once used to smuggle cigarettes, sugar, and other black market goods between Italy and Switzerland.

The Sighignola summit on the Swiss border offers views so breathtaking it's been named one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

Heralded as one of the prettiest castles in all of Czechia.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.