Places Petronille Wants to Go

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

An underground city of salt.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The painting on an aptly named street honors the 1980s slasher movie.

This eclectic antique shop is home to the taxidermy remains of a celebrity lion named Simba.

An impromptu shrine appeared shortly after beloved "Torchwood" character Ianto Jones was killed off the show.

Small sculpted heads of prominent phrenologists mark the outside of their former headquarters.

This statue stands as a message against the ills of Apartheid.

The lasting remains of a bygone era of open-air meat markets.

A rare memorial paying homage to an altruistic woman from the 19th-century.

Designed to illustrate two parts of the human psyche.