Places ThrillSeeker Wants to Go

A dad joke was inevitable when a member of this 19th-century chocolatier family married the president of France.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

For over 300 years this little carving has been the city’s good luck charm.

The Jardin d'Étretat is populated by over-sized raindrop sculptures that make funny faces at visitors.

World's largest permanent maze made of 18,000 conifers.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

Spitfire airplanes with butterfly wings hover over Prague’s skyline.

A stream flows near the radioactive spa, where people place handmade miniatures of water mills and other strange devices.

A tragic tale of a young woman accused of witchcraft haunts this place.

A metal forest of peas pays tribute to the founding father of genetics.

This monumental neo-Renaissance tomb in Vyšehrad Cemetery is the final resting place for Czech cultural legends.

Hundreds of "animals" created from scrap metal, alongside a collection of other oddities.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

This moving sculpture depicts contortionist positions based on photographs of gymnast Věra Čáslavská, who protested the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

This trio of reliefs—an ear, a mouth, and a pair of eyes—carved into the walls of flooded quarries is a monument to spying.

A beautiful window with the old Tesla Radio company logo.

Stroll past dozens of intricately-detailed scale replicas of buildings from all over Czechia.

A cheeky reminder about the value of art dangles above one of Olomouc's busiest streets.

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.