Places rlawrick Wants to Go

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.

Rediscovered underground chapel is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.

A near tragic event on this bridge helped inspire the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

Explore the evolution of printing technology, from cuneiform to Kindle.

The press that first printed the Book of Mormon.

Called the “General Motors of the piano industry,” these buildings once produced as many as 700 pianos a week.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.