Places strangersigh Wants to Go

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

Underneath this Byzantinian church lies a necropolis filled with ancient tombs and the ruins of previous churches.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.