Places Sandra Lang Wants to Go

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

This 16th-century house tells the city's history through old artifacts and quirky tales.

A tree planted by Marie Curie is treasured by the Radium institute that she set up.

A delightful museum entirely dedicated to the tiny homes of dolls.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

Colombia’s only monument erected to mark the end of slavery in the former Republic of New Granada.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

An ongoing medieval tradition of communal pig husbandry is honored with a handsome granite sculpture.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

The world champion cow is buried within a historic old asylum.

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

This historic hotel preserves many treasures from its heyday hosting passengers on the Orient Express.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

A real-life Professor Snape once taught in this Welsh university building, which students of course nicknamed “Hogwarts.”

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.