Places Charles Fowler Wants to Go

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.