Places Jon K Wants to Go

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

This bookstore serves recipes from the cookbooks on sale.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This sculpture encompasses the emotion of rail travel.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Look up from the busy streets to discover how time is kept!

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

A microbiologist-chef is slinging noodles with hyperlocal Nordic ingredients.

This mountainside mural of a person carrying a torch was created for the 1994 Winter Olympics.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.