Places Will Conant Wants to Go

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

A section of the long chain that blocked enemy ships from entering Constantinople.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

A tiny park in the middle of some big power politics.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

The most metal church of all time was built in record time because of an international, pious pissing contest.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.