Places AnAn Wants to Go

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

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

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

The tallest stone dam in Poland was opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II himself.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

Learn the incredible story of how an unassuming spa town was transformed into one of the world’s largest uranium mining sites.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

After falling into disuse, this imposing department store found new life as a Hollywood backdrop and a theater.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

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

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

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 resting place of 18th century German mummies.