Places balletmecanique Wants to Go

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

A museum dedicated to highlighting the extraordinary in ordinary lives.

This 21st century cabinet of curiosities includes dinosaur bones, moon rocks, film memorabilia, and more.

The largest ongoing mosaic project in Europe.

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

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.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

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

Multiple versions of this horned sculpture, tied to local legend, have been stolen over the years.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.