Places cristyshepherd Wants to Go

This 1,400-year-old abbey was once a powerhouse for music and intellectualism known across Normandy.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

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

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

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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

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

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.