Places Helena Malewska Wants to Go

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

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

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.