Places Sandra Lang Wants to Go

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

A 13th-century Swiss castle houses a collection of artifacts from the Polish diaspora.

The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

An incredibly well-preserved barbershop from the 1920s was transformed into a tiny local museum.

This eclectic architectural gem played witness to Zurich’s colonial past.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

A beautiful old horse stable hosts one of the largest collections of domestic animal skeletons and taxidermy.

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

This former hydraulic laboratory is now a woodland dotted with old engineering models.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.