Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The great Danube river starts here.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

A working ranch doubles as a sustainable hub for world-renowned classical music and large-scale sculptures.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

A Buddhist shrine in a cave protected by macaques next to dark passages lined with creepy paintings.