Places aatabear Wants to Go

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

One artist's collection of homemade handicrafts doubles as a monument to 20th-century material culture.

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.