Places Lisa De Vriese Wants to Go

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

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

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

This fascinating museum in an old water tower holds the world's largest collection of Vodou artifacts from western and central Africa.

The little tuxedo cat survived the trip, then languished in obscurity.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

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

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.