Places Paiva Wants to Go

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

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

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

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

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

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

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.