Places microvroni Wants to Go

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

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

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

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

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

Three small rooms at the back of the “official” church of London's clowns.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

A private selection of curiosities, carefully curated by a young Brighton local.

The remnants of a strange stilted building on rails can still be seen at low tide.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.