Places pjd Wants to Go

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Artists have long been drawn to these atmospheric 12th-century ruins.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

The preserved left hand of a saint once known as "the Pearl of York."

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

An Orthodox church inside a small "Garden of Eden" built by a man who had a vision.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.