Places Added by Christine Williamson

A lookout built from shipping containers with a rare view into the harbor’s busy machinery.

a short hiking tour, especially for couples, in a village with a „matching“ name

Cemetery with no dead, but a collection of exceptionally irreverent funerary monuments, site of the World Peace Cross and the world's most monumental Danse Macabre

A strange building in the woods connected to a tragic love story

excavated small Roman castle in the woods close to Pohlheim

A cave whose archaeological contents proved the existence of a Copper Age culture is also where God put the Devil to shame

Memorial for the woman who invented the coffee filter

Last resting place for the Formula 1 Racing Driver who was the idol of legendary racing driver Michael Schumacher

Memorial for the last casualty of the Cold War, causing the last major crisis of the Cold War

Richly carved, brightly painted doors that turned small fishing villages into open-air showcases

A beloved postmaster’s lonely walk home ended in a wooded ambush

The hidden chapel that keeps getting forgotten over the centuries

Ruins of a vanished village, long shadowed by rumors of a hidden lineage

A small village church is home to two extraordinary triptych altarpieces that date back to the 15th century.

A memorial for a racecar driver who died while trying to set a land speed record on the autobahn.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

A twisted steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center is the centerpiece of this memorial for those who died on September 11, 2001.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

Was the twisted roof on this church's belltower an intentional design or a happy accident?

The Hungarian biochemist whose research helped develop mRNA-based vaccines for Covid-19.

Take a stroll through the history of prams, carriages, and other ways we move babies around.

The second-highest train station in Europe.

A bridge that dates back to the 12th century is said to have made the devil very angry.

A monument marks the site where the famed composer stopped to relieve himself on a long journey. Just one problem: Mozart never went to Raschala.