Places thelonesomeroad Wants to Go

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

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

A highly-criticized monument in Budapest has become the site of a makeshift Holocaust memorial.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.

Originally founded in 1654, this coffee house claims to be the oldest of its kind in Europe.

Inside this church is an obscure piece of art carved by the famous Alice Liddell.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.

Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The remains of a grand castle that may have inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.