Places AnAn Wants to Go

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

One of the largest vehicles ever built is now open to the public.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

Where a hospital garden hides a haunting reminder of life’s cycle.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

The former home of a Portuguese poet, artist, and collector is packed to the brim with art.

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

A twisted, six-headed palm tree cursed by a witch, said to spell calamity if its seventh head is allowed to grow.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

These overlooked ruins give an intimate look at the Inca Empire's urban planning prowess.