Places Will Conant Wants to Go

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

An underground city of salt.

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.

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

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.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.