Places stabarinde Wants to Go

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Model trains whizz around an extensive room-sized diorama of Kyoto City.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

A non-stop elevator ride in Vienna's city hall.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

Sound travels strangely in this underground whispering gallery.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.