Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

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

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

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

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

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

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This bronze statue stands throughout the year and illustrates an urgent message about the environment.

Once used to protect important Roman trade routes.

The fake World Cup prize was secretly created after the first one was stolen in 1966.

The largest municipal cemetery in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Europe contains some of Manchester’s biggest characters.