Places Andrea IX Wants to Go

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

The history and future of cannabis.

Amsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imagination.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

This mysterious and once-grand memorial still embodies a remarkable architectural vision.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

An underground city of salt.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.