Places phostak Wants to Go

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

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

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

One man's personal collection of KGB memorabilia is presented along with his strange viewpoint.

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

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

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

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

A quiet country churchyard holds a monument to the last known sin-eater in England.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

A Parisian boutique devoted to la Sape, the elegant Congolese fashion subculture rooted in European colonization.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.