Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

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

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

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

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Rich with fauna and flora, nature-lovers can walk across the sea at this UNESCO World Heritage spot.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

Take a cruise with no movement but plenty of style in this one-of-a-kind boat mall.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.