Places piegem Wants to Go

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

This collection of 20th-century toys is filled with a lifelong personal toy collection brought from the U.S. to Amsterdam.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

This large copper bolt represents the benchmark for measuring sea levels in most of Europe.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

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

This bronze statue was dedicated to a 1966 Beatles hit.

A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

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

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

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen's airship docked here before leading the first-ever flight over the North Pole.

A unique sculpture designed to outline humanity's reliance on oil.

Watch a magnificent, ever-changing colorscape inside James Turrell's immersive work of art.

The iconic blonde bombshell has a familial connection to this town in southern Norway.

The remains of a German plane still sit in the Norwegian wood where it crashed in 1942.

Large military radio station without transmitting towers.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.