Places modgemadge Wants to Go

London's old-school healing garden.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Inside this station, the 1945 film "Brief Encounter" is played on a loop daily.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

These turtle-shaped concrete stepping stones provide a unique river crossing in central Kyoto.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

This collection of artifacts represents one family's mission to record the horrors of World War II inflicted on their hometown.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.