Places Theexploringcat Wants to Go

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

This wildly-tiled artist's palace is a living and growing account of the creator's life, loves, and labors.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

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

A statue in the heart of Edinburgh honors a bear that served in the Polish military during World War II.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.