Places ryanbooth Wants to Go

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

In British Columbia, a unique microclimate has allowed these trees to live much longer than they usually would.

Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.

According to local legend, the devil shattered this column after losing a bet.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

Apparently, Hell has waterfalls in Slovenia.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.