Places MRosebud Wants to Go

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

A gorgeous, nostalgic café housed in a lofty old warehouse, lit only by petroleum lamps.

The legendary Japanese filmmaker’s tombstone is marked by a single letter meaning “nothing," and bottles of sake.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

The home of president Truman during the Potsdam Conference, and the place from which the atomic bomb strike on Japan was triggered.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A socialist building dedicated to teachers showcases one of the largest Soviet mosaics in the world.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.