Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Museum covers every step of the chocolate-making process, from cultivation to the finished product.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

This old, abandoned hotel offers magnificent views.

An early 20th-century sanatorium, long abandoned and now being reclaimed by nature.

Petting this mysterious iron monkey supposedly brings good luck.

This bike path traverses the treetops.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

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

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

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

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.