Places VojtaHoraak Wants to Go

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

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

With no menu and no sign, this 130-year-old taverna doles out affordable home cooking.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

This site used to mark the heart of the EU—now it's crowned with a striking glass sculpture and a buried secret underneath.

In the middle of a Brussels roundabout, a cargo container balancing on its edge.

This bunker site once briefly used by Hitler now features locals’ accounts of German occupation.

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

Also known as Napoleon's Canal, this waterway was created on the orders of the general, and construction was interrupted by Waterloo.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

A collection of weird and wonderful art fills a former houseplant nursery.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.