Places Divine Wants to Go

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

This 19th-century heritage building once housed a department store that supplied British provisions in the city.

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

This grisly exhibit houses skeletons and weapons from a devastating 14th-century clash.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.