Places serpent Wants to Go

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

At 72 feet below sea level, it's the lowest commercial airport in the world.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A towering monument in Spain has proven to be more labor-intensive than initially planned.

Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

Mostly underground in the old days Back in the USSR, today the Beatles beckon to tourists from a wall sculpture out in the open in central Russia.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

Replica of mosque destroyed by Russia in the 16th century.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

More than 200 eclectic sculptures surround the artist's home.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

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

Europe's largest collection of matchbox designs is a fascinating exploration of the cultural history of the world.

The building's fluid, wavelike walls are a true feat of architectural ingenuity.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.