Places ElineB Wants to Go

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

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

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

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

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

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

The great Danube river starts here.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

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

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

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

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