Places eapya Wants to Go

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

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

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

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

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

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

This Bronze Age tomb is the centerpiece of a clearing within a beautiful Irish forest.

The ruins of a medieval monastery named after a type of tree.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

On the Irish coast, 18 members of the Howard family are eternally resting in an Egyptian pyramid.

Oliver Cromwell once seized the land under this house, which included the ruins of a medieval abbey that the owner used to build his stately home.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.