Places leecrutchley Wants to Go

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

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

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

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

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A typographic tribute to the many comedic greats who make Great Britain laugh.

A symbol for the opposition to nuclear power around the world.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".