Places tomod05 Wants to Go

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.