Places ktknoll Wants to Go

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

An extraordinary museum devoted to the pop art legend created by Slovak artists.

A growing popular hipster market with over 100 local specialties and live music.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

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

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Berlin's old airport.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

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