Places criatvra Wants to Go

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

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

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

The giant scales in this museum can still tell if someone is one of the devil's brides just by weight.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

The world’s largest street art museum.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

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

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.