Places Sandra Lang Wants to Go

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Said to be the only museum in the world dedicated to the most classic of all blooms, the rose.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

An awe-inspiring giant blue whale jaw bone stands in the center of this Dutch island.

The place where houses are born.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

Inspired by "The Starry Night" this Dutch bike path turns into a glowing work of art each night.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

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

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

On this Polish road, an optical illusion makes cars seem to roll uphill.

This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.

The final resting place of the last "gypsy king" of Poland.

This statue and park honor the Swedish chemist Jacob Berzelius, one of the founders of modern chemistry.