The Reeperbahn area in Hamburg’s borough St. Pauli has undergone quite a significant transformation. Some decades ago, the red light and party district was regarded to be a rather dangerous area with a high crime rate. Nowadays, there are strict controls…
I love unique places, weird locations – and even mark them by the Flyctory Obscura tag – The more I love it when these places are even entertaining or educative. The Takis Pattchis Museum of Industrial Pharmacy is definitely the…
Even though the Belgian border is less than an hour drive away from where I live, there are not too many postings on Flyctory.com related to this country. The more I am happy to introduce you to a hidden gem…
Many oeople visit the Canary Islands just due to the reliable climate and good weather. However, there are some really nice cultural and educative places on this Southern part of Spain as well. One of them is the Canaries Museum…
Despite the country as such is rather small (measured by the number of people, not by area), Iceland has some quite unique and interesting places, museums and exhibitions. One of these places is the Ystafell Auto Museum, which is sometimes…
The area around Trier is holding a bunch of records for the oldest buildings and structures in Germany. The rationale for that are Roman structures, which haven proven especially durable. While the Southwest German city is rather famous for its…
You can hardly deny that Superman is truly a US-American hero. While the comic figure and superhero has first been published in 1938, it took him 34 years to find a “real” home town. Just in line with the original,…
In the early 1990’s I visited Malta for the first time, going on a summer vacation with my parents. The Popeye Village was already a key tourist attraction at that time. For the 1980 movie starring Robin Williams as Popeye,…