Places Ursa Wants to Go

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

These spartan apartments are provided to clergymen visiting Vatican City.

One of Catholicism's four major basilicas has a series of papal portraits that are said to predict the end of the world.

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

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

This Roman arch marks the location of an ancient gate at one of the Seven Hills of Rome.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.