Places jessicacripps Wants to Go

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

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

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

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

The bridges portrayed on EU currency aren't fictional anymore.

The world's largest collection of ships in bottles.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

The works of poetry's biggest names grace the walls of the city of Leiden, all carefully painted by hand.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

Two gravestones clasp hands over the religious divide.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

Take a stroll through the hellish grotesques of Hieronymus Bosch in this elaborate Netherlands church.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.