Places NicholasManila Wants to Go

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The home of a deceased Hungarian artist is now on display for visitors.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.

A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

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

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

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

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

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

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