Places fawkesbox74 Wants to Go

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A historic fire call point.

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

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

Largely overlooked, this little fountain on Museum Island is a whimsical tribute to a Prussian king nicknamed the “Fatty Flounder.”

From carts to cars, this leftover Roman bridge in France has managed to survive for centuries.

This garden houses the remains of the ancient Greek port of Marseille.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

The world's largest collection of fire-fighting items dating back almost 350 years.

The tallest mountain in mainland Netherlands isn't actually very tall.

Crouch down, stretch tall, and be sure to flail your legs to pay homage to the Monty Python classic.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.