Places karenwanpharmd Wants to Go

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

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

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

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

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

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

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

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

The former headquarters of history's oldest megacorporation.

Tucked in the back of a flower shop, its collection details the fascinating history of the Netherlands's iconic symbol.

Early Nazi prison for political prisoners.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

Berlin's old airport.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.