Places Max xaM Wants to Go

A hauntingly preserved early 20th-century industrial flour mill featuring a grand central tower, ornate spiral staircases, and original milling machinery left untouched.

Long before the hollyhocks and colorful facades, this lane was notorious for witch trials, infanticide, and prostitution.

Denmark's famous pseudo-hill.

An unsettling shrine dedicated to the ravenous beast that prowled 18th-century France.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

If they push on just the right spot, even the weakest person can move this titanic boulder.

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.

Hidden in plain sight, the origin of these embedded skulls remains the stuff of legend.

This hidden treasure is the world’s oldest active geocache.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

In the Swedish forest stands a stone with a deadly inscription, promising ruin and death to whoever disturbs it.

This might be the world’s tallest Bronze Age standing stone.

The largest stone moved during the Stone Age once stood proudly in France.

After Nazi forces smashed this 4,000-year-old Neolithic standing stone, locals banded together to restore it.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

One of the few German synagogues to survive the Kristallnacht pogrom has been beautifully restored.

The bridge that cost Germany a World Heritage Site.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.