Places jsimms1016 Wants to Go

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.