Places piccolo8va Wants to Go

This ruined castle perched atop a rocky peak is a great place for a hike.

A cheeky reminder about the value of art dangles above one of Olomouc's busiest streets.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

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

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

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

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

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

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

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

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.