Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

Named after a Mexican president, who once lived nearby, this park in a residential Mexico City neighborhood packs a whole lot of history into a small space.

The ruins of the humble house of one of Mexico's most iconic revolutionaries.

Across the islands, baked goods, sauces, and much more are for sale 24/7.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

Baked in 1898 and still almost flawless, this floral masterpiece is considered the world's oldest complete wedding cake.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

In a divided Germany, Potsdam's "central" train station was relocated to the city's southern suburbs to avoid West Berlin.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

Inside this discotheque resides a unique memorial dedicated to one club-goers favorite pet.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."