Places pikatrushka Wants to Go

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

This former limestone quarry is now a subterranean wonderland of grand stonework.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

The world's only official college program focused on "clown therapy."

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

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

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.