Places jadewik Wants to Go

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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

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

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.