Places daratheodora Wants to Go

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

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

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.