Places noaha Wants to Go

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

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

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

A preserved building where the dead were once watched for signs of life.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.