Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

An exquisite collection of fairytale conveyances that puts most car museums to shame.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

A majestic hotel for dreamers rises from the center of a fairytale wood.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

The "Little Ones," show Portugal in full miniature splendor.

The prolific artwork of a self-taught sculptor.

Geological storytelling.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.