Places writerchick2 Wants to Go

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

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

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

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.