Places derWaliser Wants to Go

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

These small, brass stones commemorate the first Roma victims of the Holocaust.

A giant floating rubber duck-bunny painted with a different design every year.

From afar it looks like someone's hat blew into the water, but closer inspection reveals a giant floating sculpture.

An enormous Polaroid picture adds an artistic flair to Rotterdam.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.

Elegant marble and old vaults fill this historic Dutch bank turned office space.

A modern reimagining of a medieval city gate.

The world's first floating farm is staffed by one human, three robots, and 35 cows.

This charming pup is meant to celebrate the youth and stubbornness of the city's students.

Built by crowdsourcing, this wooden foot bridge saved a part of Rotterdam that was languishing in wait of city funding.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.