Places The Derringdos Wants to Go

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A celebration of solstice followed by a fiery purging of evils.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The world's oldest model village.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.