Places rojber Wants to Go

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.

The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

An extraordinary house museum and cabinet of curiosities in the heart of Florence.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

Former home to Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's dazzling Art Deco duplex studio.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

The storefront of a ramshackle Parisian puppet theater.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

This structure atop a craggy cliff in one of the most beautiful parks in Paris boasts an unbeatable view.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.