Places isabelleNL Wants to Go

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This "flat geyser" bubbles up out of the ground periodically like a disappearing river.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This basement museum explores the art and artistry of fascism.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.