Places CaroSche Wants to Go

A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

The largest mosque in Germany.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This little jewel of post-war religious architecture is hidden inside the Diocesan Museum, which swallowed it when it was built.

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.

This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.

Life-sized bronze statues of fictional puppet characters.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

Enormous ants wielding giant pine needles guard a Stockholm real estate company's office.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

A wooden street sign is the last remnant of this 400-year-old alleyway.

Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.