Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

After local authorities changed the design, the building's architect, Le Corbusier, wanted nothing to do with it.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A fantastic example of Victorian railway engineering with two unusual decorative features.

A miniature representation of Canadian cities and landmarks in incredible—and sometimes hilarious—detail.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

An unusual vending machine designed to support mourners during funeral ceremonies at Zurich's largest cemetery.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.