Places skopke Wants to Go

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

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

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Overlooked amid the tourist bustle of Florence, this museum is dedicated to the craft of stone inlay.

This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

One of the tallest maypoles remaining in England in one of its smaller villages.

17th century puritan church with connections to the Salem Witch Trials.