Places Awaters83 Wants to Go

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

Along the banks of the River Rhine lies a park that seems unassuming, but beneath the surface lies a long and fascinating history.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.

This confectioner serves one of the finest renditions of Antep baklava outside of Turkey.

A small hippo-shaped fountain in Berlin, Germany.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

A Syrian family keeps memories of their homeland alive at this sweet shop.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

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

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.