Places stonoceno Wants to Go

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

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

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

A tangible and sobering reminder of an atrocity that took place during a secret war.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

The eccentric midcentury home of a suspected mafia gun-runner.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

The site of a prison camp where Cypriot resistance fighters were held in the 1950s.

These ruins disappear beneath the waves every winter.

This medieval wine press is one of the oldest in Cyprus.

More than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers from across the globe call this museum home.

The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

The ruins of a fairytale castle with a tumultuous history stand high atop the mountains.

A unique art center and shop just below a United Nations Checkpoint in central Nicosia.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

Learn to drink tea like an Estonian at this museum.

Three small rooms in the jungle house the most elaborate and intact murals of the Mayan world.

A mythical bird etched into the face of a rock doubles as the mascot for a nearby school.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.