Places smolfine Wants to Go

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

This aged paving stone, marked by a maiden's foot imprint and the tales of her plunge from the cathedral tower, serves as a memorial to a tragic local legend.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

A macabre sculpture museum in the capital of Haiti fuses human bones with broken metal to create challenging contemporary art.

Thousands of Haitians travel to the waterfalls to ask the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie for healing in a yearly pilgrimage.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

A pre-Columbian ceremonial and astronomical site built by the Taino Indians.

Hundreds of pieces of ancient Taíno art cover the walls of this Caribbean cave system.

The oldest colonial fortress in the Americas was once the home and later prison of Christopher Columbus.

Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

The first hospital in the New World.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.