Places Pengwn Wants to Go

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

An homage to the humble watering can.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

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

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

No need to strap in for a “ride” on this walkable roller coaster.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

The world's biggest pet store.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

This monolithic slab of art metal crowns a German slag heap.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.