Places warja Wants to Go

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.