Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

An Orthodox church inside a small "Garden of Eden" built by a man who had a vision.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.