Places thelonesomeroad Wants to Go

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Dedicated to the Father of the British Fire Service.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

This 15th-century structure had a long, tortuous journey to its current location.

A public art installation with a nautical themed poem, enhances this pedestrian street.

Traditional Danish spot where the schnapps are flowing and the smørrebrød is loaded.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

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

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This Dutch art piece became a Russian icon.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

The remnants of a WWI naval mine that once terrorized the country now decorates a street.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

A late-medieval Dutch castle with trick fountains in its whimsical water gardens.

For over 100 years the most important physicists in the world have autographed this university wall.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.