Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

Down this Cracovian street resides a plaque with a stark message about the city's air pollution.

A collection of modern and vintage pinball machines housed in the cellar of a 15th-century building.

Learn the fine art of making a centuries-old treat at this hands-on food museum.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Planes, helicopters, and a shipwreck are underwater in this former limestone quarry.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

Harry Potter once visited this massive limestone cliff, which was carved by an ancient glacial river.

The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.

This sturdy, circular stronghold served as one of the forts that protected the Venetian Lagoon.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.