Places Caytastrophy Wants to Go

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

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

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.

An artistic tribute to the famous singer, just around the corner from where he was born.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.