Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

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

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.

This well-preserved Cistercian Abbey in a romantic pastoral setting has inspired artists like the poet Wordsworth.

The stately remains of Llywelyn the Great's mighty fortress.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.