Places kattowice Wants to Go

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

A gorgeous example of 13th-century Gothic architecture.

Discover the mummified remains of Ancient Egypt in the middle of metropolitan Tokyo.

Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

At the "fishing boat shrine," an offering is said to help ward off fevers.

These narrow stone granaries have been used to store and dry out grain for hundreds of years.

The history of this Moorish castle includes royals, a Mexican-Spanish association, and several attempts at lodging.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

These elaborate gothic monuments honor Verona's medieval lords.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

Three floors of musical instruments coming from all corners of the world and hundreds of years of musical history.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.