Places nowickid Wants to Go

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

The great Danube river starts here.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Romania's triumphal arch looks out over Bucharest.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

A Romanian church built from one single oak.

Religious structure known for its sculpted details.

Romania's only crater lake with water as pure as if distilled.

Romania's "Red Ravine" is a little-known natural wonder that bears a resemblance to the Grand Canyon.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

This rose and lavender oil distillery still operates as it did more than a century ago.

At this 16th-century monastery in rural Bulgaria, visitors can also spend the night.

These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.