Places Mark H Wants to Go

Hang out with thousands of butterflies in one of the world's largest such enclosures.

A delightful architectural wonder awaits on a lake island in Kuala Lumpur’s oldest park.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Life-sized bronze statues of fictional puppet characters.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

A poignant mural honors the heroic teenage non-conformists who took on the Nazis and paid the ultimate price.

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

In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

A museum celebrating the Canadian forces that liberated Belgium from the Nazis replete with battlefield miniatures and multiple Gardens.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.