Places angellj1976 Wants to Go

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

The first modernist church in Europe.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.