Places RenardLoria Wants to Go

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

According to local legend, the devil shattered this column after losing a bet.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

A Baroque mansion with ties to legendary magicians and alchemists.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.