Places Maggie Mason Wants to Go

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

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

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

An exhibit of endangered species confiscated from smugglers and passengers.

A Danish fisherman spent 25 years covering nearly every inch of his home with tens of thousands of shells as a gift to his wife.

An old limestone mine transformed into a beautiful and unusual sculpture museum.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

Prank chair from an 18th-century Danish royal court shows the eternal popularity of fart jokes.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

This enormous steel tube is the biggest speaking horn in the world.

A curious stone in a public square commemorates the victims of witch-burning.

The original shop where the iconic Belgian praline was invented.

This 19th-century zoological collection has withstood the test of time.

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.

This interactive sculpture allows visitors to leave a message in case a friend passes by.