Places FraeuleinS Wants to Go

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

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

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

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.