Places Olndskan Wants to Go

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

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

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.