Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

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

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

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

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

World War II ended before these tunnels built to protect vital oil from Japanese bombs were ever used.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

One of the great math minds of the 17th century is underfoot in this 900 year old Dutch church.

An unassuming rod in the Netherlands was once the old standard unit of length for the entire Dutch empire.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

In the days before house numbers, these colorful signs held clues about various buildings' purposes.