Places inesgmartins Wants to Go

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

The oldest housing complex in Riga is a mini timeline of architectural trends.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

The Frank Zappa fan club erected this monument to their prog-rock hero to mark a new era of post-Soviet Lithuania.

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.