Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

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

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

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

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

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

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

A massive relic of the communist era of Berlin.

In northeastern Poland, the ruins of a massive granary overlook the Narew River.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This almost a century old piece of architecture had been overlooked by most, except for the drunk and the homeless

This former atomic bunker is now the Olomouc Institute of Remembrance, telling stories of the communist era.

Dedicated to the works of the legendary special effects artist.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.