Places janwo Wants to Go

In the oldest zen temple stands a descendant of the very tree that introduced tea to Japanese culture.

This work of engineering is imbued with elegance and ingeniousness.

After being bombed and largely abandoned, this former railway workshop has been transformed into a lively market space.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

A comedic homage to a beloved German actor.

A collection of antique telescopes dot the halls of the university's astrophysics department.

This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

A decomissioned facility where the German "Transrapid" maglev trains were once tested.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

The only ancient site that remains on the south bank of the sacred Ilissos river.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.

What do we know about the real woman behind one of the Beatles' most famous songs?

Climb and walk into the crater of one of the youngest volcanoes on Earth.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.