Places jmpoesch Wants to Go

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

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

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

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

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.