Places White Rat Wants to Go

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

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.

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

The site of the first battle of World War II.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

This charming Latvian lane doubled as Baker Street on the Soviet Union’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

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

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.