Places Sahakiel Wants to Go

One of Belgium's oldest hospitals saw patients from the 13th to 20th centuries before becoming a museum.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

To enter this cluttered-yet-cozy sanctum of Belgian brews, ring the bell and tell the gatekeepers you've come “to taste beer.”

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

A wonderfully versatile natural history curio cabinet preserved since the 1840s.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

This marvelous array is one of the largest collections of mechanical instruments in Europe.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

This unique medieval artwork featuring the story of the Antichrist remained lost for decades.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.