Places NycterisBerna Wants to Go

David Robert Jones was a Berliner — from 1976–1978

This is the real-life “Phantom of the Opera” box from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.

This carillon clock features three figures that mark the start of the city’s most important celebration, the San Juan Festival

Once tied to Templar legend and later to Prussian counts, this fairy-tale palace has witnessed centuries of Polish history

Royal milk tea was invented here at the Far Eastern capital of Sir Thomas Lipton’s tea empire

150 kinds of unique sundaes and gigantic parfaits await at Kyoto’s iconic vintage café

A painted medieval castle where the most celebrated outlaw-poet of the Middle Ages was imprisoned — and where you can descend into his exact cell, nine centuries later.

Home to the "Rat King" of Nantes and other wonders of the natural world.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

A tunnel commissioned by ‘the Intruder King’ to escape from the palace if there were problems.

A forgotten stone skeleton of medieval Dijon slumbers beneath the feet of unsuspecting museum visitors.

A small stone boy mischievously turns his backside toward the city’s most famous water carrier.

A unique Baroque monument that creates a fascinating “theater of memory” focused on the themes of human transience and the hope for resurrection.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.

Where the legendary wizard sleeps for eternity, according to Arthurian lore.

This immaculately preserved church from late antiquity was originally the mausoleum of the Emperor Constantine's daughter.

This 12th-century castle majestically overlooks the city and the beautiful Mosel River valley.

On this spot Lord Kelvin allegedly discovered absolute zero.

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!