Places thomp Wants to Go

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

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

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

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

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

A surprising relic of WWII, sitting boldly in a Marseille street.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A bronze statue commemorating his royal meowjesty, Toulouse.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

One of the few places in the world that let's you legally relieve yourself on a UNESCO world heritage site.

The idyllic island where the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent “the happiest time of his life.”

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

One of the world's largest skateboard collections is on display inside a historical mansion.

The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.