Places Simonne Wants to Go

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

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

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

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

An intricate ceramic tile facade adorns this five-star hotel.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

Legend says this mysterious stone head belongs to a woman who was petrified by an alchemist.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.