Places rhumphrey17 Wants to Go

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

Dictionary Johnson’s favorite feline.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A statue of the early navigator stands overlooking the land he first surveyed.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

A Gothic-inspired fish market is Gothenburg's best place to find loaves and fishes.