Places irenel Wants to Go

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.