Places gretafries Wants to Go

A former elementary school houses one man's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and taxidermy.

This small island has a dark past as a colony for Chinese lepers and a dropoff point for bootleggers.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

A 16th-century mosque rebuilt after wartime devastation.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.