Places atraveller Wants to Go

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Dedicated to a Bolshevik revolutionary, this museum is a true time capsule of the Soviet era.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

These rugged, color-stained mountains hold the secrets of the Kazakh desert.

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

A historic structure inspired by Roman, Muslim, and Jewish bath houses.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

An open-air "garden" of mural art that changes weekly.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.