Places Jill13 Wants to Go

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

A bench and a bridge pay tribute to Birmingham's favorite heavy metal band.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

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

A nuclear reactor created for Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" campaign is now used for research at a Dutch university.

This massive collection of taxidermy is full of specimens collected by missionaries during their international travels.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

This is part of the Francke Foundation Museum, a curiosity cabinet filled with different scientific and natural wonders.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

The world's first and only museum dedicated to dachshunds.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

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

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.