Places Jason C Wants to Go

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

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

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

The poet's been ambling through these New York woods since 1940.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

At 22 feet tall, these Bronze Age monoliths are some of the tallest standing stones in the United Kingdom.

Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

Located in the middle of public park, this cave built in the early 19th century houses an ancient stone sarcophagus.

In a divided Germany, Potsdam's "central" train station was relocated to the city's southern suburbs to avoid West Berlin.

This hydraulic power system in London was, at one time, seen as a rival to electricity and the last of its kind to shut down.

A hole in the floor of this chapel is said to have been created by a footprint of the devil.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

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

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

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

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."