Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

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

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

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

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

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

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

On the cliffs of São Jorge in the Azores stand the remains of a lighthouse that was struck by a series of earthquakes.

On a trail in Portugal's Barão de São João National Forest, a pile of faces look up at hikers from the forest floor.

A small sanctuary carved into the mountainside near the tallest point in continental Portugal.

A naturally occurring amphitheater carved by erosion into the mountainside.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.

A devasting 2020 fire left this historic seminary in ruins.

A glacial valley filled with silver beech trees in the mountains of Portugal.

The walls of this small village have been turned into a living street art gallery.