Places Lillive Wants to Go

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

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

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.