Places Sandra Lang Wants to Go

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

The world’s only museum dedicated to baked beans.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

This overlooked museum houses an amazing collection of rare, antique typewriters.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Where Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein' and John William Polidori's 'The Vampyre' were born.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

Featuring Zürich's only authentic 14th-century plague doctor's uniform!

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

Dedicated to the art of hunting, with juxtapositions of contemporary art.