Places Marina Wang Wants to Go

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

A Buddhist temple covered in intricate designs and carvings made out of seashells and pieces of coral.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

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

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.