Places Sandra Lang Wants to Go

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This inconspicuous pharmacy went down in history as the first gas station in the world after fueling the first road trip ever taken.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

London's marvelous wildfowl reserve along the Thames.

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

This towering statue of Jesus provided internet to the surrounding area.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

A King Kong-like gorilla hangs from the top of this commercial building in Tokyo.

An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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