Places shatteredpools Wants to Go

This giant two-tier celebration cake serves as a befitting advert for the confectionery college it sits on top of.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

The only Buddhist temple in Japan dedicated to breasts.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.

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

This once-mighty brick factory is now a unique museum experience.

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.

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

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.