Places vturano Wants to Go

At this cozy bar tucked down a hidden Galway backroad, Guinness makes the Gaelic come out.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

A WWII museum that tries to reenact history.

Plaques celebrating Lithuanian writers freckle a wall of this picture-perfect path.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

Hundreds of signs pointing to the birthplaces of current Helsinki residents form stalactites on the ceiling of the cave-like Kamppi metro station.

This former hospital was once one of the oldest mental health facilities in Europe.

This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

A map store filled with original Cold War era Russian maps of the world.