Places Added by Christine Williamson

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

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

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

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

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

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.