Places elissasnowball Wants to Go

This little jewel of post-war religious architecture is hidden inside the Diocesan Museum, which swallowed it when it was built.

This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.

The largest mosque in Germany.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

A council house in England where ghostly activity was reported in the 1970s.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A student driver's nightmare.