Places Ru Chia Wants to Go

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

This gem from the industrial age helps visitors and residents alike traverse hilly Stockholm.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

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

Hundreds of signs pointing to the birthplaces of current Helsinki residents form stalactites on the ceiling of the cave-like Kamppi metro station.

These lakeside pictographs were some of the first pieces of prehistoric artwork found in Finland.

Dedicated to the outnumbered Finnish forces who pushed back Soviet forces during the conflict.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

The etchings on this narrow channel between two islands bear witness to maritime travelers who have passed through since the Middle Ages.

This small Estonian hill is covered in hand-made twig crosses that are said to bring good luck.

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.

Copenhagen's "other" little mermaid marks the historic location of past sea maid sightings.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

A small self-proclaimed micro-state located on a piece of disputed territory between Croatia and Serbia, near Liberland.