Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.

It's the only museum of its kind in Ukraine.

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

A trio of keyhole-shaped burial mounds restored to their ancient glory.

A little theme park full of miniature monasteries and churches, made by hand.

The figure atop this globe is from a Serbian play about a merchant's travels around the world.

A beautiful but deteriorating monument of Soviet architecture.

A Soviet-style monument, built after transferring the remains of heroes from their graves.

Sculptures of religious figures made from the ashes of pilgrims' incense.

Inspired by the colossal pyramids at Giza, this 15-foot structure is believed to be the first funerary pyramid in Great Britain.

An early creation by Erich Mendelsohn.

St. Peter’s, in Western Germany, has stood as a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture since 1181.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

Home to the ancient Roman temple of a lesser-known Celtic god that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Lovecraft.

This castle was designed to have as many windows as there are days in the year.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

The remnants of what was once the longest bridge in the world.

Enter this dragon-shaped temple to see animatronic scenes depicting heaven and hell.

Resting place and mausoleum of the founder and first president of Turkey.

A fountain filled with golden statues, celebrating the the ancient kingdom of Colchis.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

It seems that the residents of of this megalopolis suddenly vanished, but they were never actually there.