Places Calmmseas Wants to Go

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The great Danube river starts here.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

No need to strap in for a “ride” on this walkable roller coaster.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

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

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

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

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.