Places noaha Wants to Go

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

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

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

A lecture hall sink once used by Einstein and other noted physicists is now regarded as a strange science relic.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

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

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.