Places Hennie Wants to Go

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

This marvelous array is one of the largest collections of mechanical instruments in Europe.

The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

Celebrating the Eucharist, the day is a legal holiday in many parts of Germany.

A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.

One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.