Places IrajV Wants to Go

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

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

A collection of 4,000 thimbles that's more versatile than one might imagine.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.