Places fallenangel Wants to Go

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The Jesus tree of Malta bears a striking resemblance to Christ on the cross.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

In a city that boasts four separate inclined cable railways, this is one of the busiest funicular lines in the world.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.