Places osniken Wants to Go

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

St George's Leprosy Museum depicts the gruesome afflictions of those suffering from the disease.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.