Sucevița, Romania
Suceviţa Monastery
This fortress-like monastery is covered with intricate frescoes.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Băile Herculane, Romania
Abandoned Baths of Băile Herculane
An old spa town in the mountains of Romania where, according to legend, the great hero Hercules once bathed.
Șinca, Romania
The Sinca Veche Temple Cave
No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.
Săpânța, Romania
The Merry Cemetery
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Templin, Germany
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Traffic Signs
The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.
Trassenheide, Germany
Upside-Down House of Trassenheide
The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.
Hamburg, Germany
German Food Additives Museum
A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.
Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Ferropolis
Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.
Brunswick, Germany
Happy Rizzi House
Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Felsenkirche (Crag Church)
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Bad Schussenried, Germany
Steinhausen
This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.
Völklingen, Germany
Volklinger Ironworks
A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.
Darmstadt, Germany
Waldspirale
A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.
Potsdam, Germany
Alexandrowka
A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Jeweled Skeletons of the Fürstenfeld Abbey
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Grünwald, Germany
Bavaria Filmstadt
This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.
Dresden, Germany
Schwebebahn Dresden
A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.
Wuppertal, Germany
Schwebebahn Wuppertal
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Kassel, Germany
Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Washington, D.C.
First Teddy Bear
The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.
Washington, D.C.
Hinckley Hilton President's Walk
A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.
Washington, D.C.
Hoff's Harmonica Case Collection
More than 500 unique and specially designed cases collected by D.C.'s "Harmonica Case Man."
Washington, D.C.
Carousel on the National Mall
Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.
Washington, D.C.
Barbie Pond on Q Street
A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.
