Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A striking, modern church devoted to a nun who loved God and beer.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

The first museum in Europe dedicated to the art of origami.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

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

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

A dinosaur-laden walking trail outside Singapore's Changi Airport.

The oldest statue in the Netherlands has survived relocation, bombardment, and burial.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.