Places mike boyle Wants to Go

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

These wire animal sculptures commemorate the exotic inhabitants that once called the Tower of London home.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Two adjoining collections of 19th-20th century physics apparatuses and instruments.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.