Places vildem Wants to Go

One man's fascination with Turkey led to this backyard mini-city.

Not your average Bosnian cafe — this locale is dedicated to the former Yugoslav dictator Tito.

Thousands of miniature bronze sculptures have taken over this city square creating a unique art installation.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

The grounds and buildings of an old wood pulp mill have been transformed into an innovative art park and museum.

Art becomes an enchanting part of the environment at this wooded sculpture park.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

Small Easter eggs are hidden in the ventilation holes of the city's newest trains.

An abstract representation of weather in Sweden.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

A wooden street sign is the last remnant of this 400-year-old alleyway.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.