Places Jason C Wants to Go

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

An homage to the humble watering can.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A wonderfully versatile natural history curio cabinet preserved since the 1840s.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

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

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

This highrise residential building looks mundane, but hides a water tower and WWII bunker.

The site of the original experiment that would be used to disprove the theory of luminiferous ether.

This sanitized yet surreal depiction of a Greek fertility god looks over a square in one of central London’s residential areas.

The largest collection of works by a pioneering Black woman sculptor is on display at this Massachusetts art museum.

An unusual double-stelae obelisk with ancient and mysterious origins.

One man’s collection of photography books has transformed into a charming exhibition space.

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.