Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Berlin's old airport.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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