Places ashaclarein Wants to Go

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

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

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Home of the first female Hungarian poet, where her secret writing lay hidden for over a century.

An old spa town in the mountains of Romania where, according to legend, the great hero Hercules once bathed.

This bone-filled cave got its name after they found 140 bear skeletons inside.

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

This ancient trail climbs the mountain where a Latin League cult worshipped Jupiter, its main deity.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.