Places apojudy Wants to Go

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.