Places ravendragonwing Wants to Go

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

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

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A water reservoir disguised as a castle stands atop a hill in a park in Stockholm city.

These airport hangars are now a bustling shopping center with only hints of its past still lingering.

This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.

A scale model of the world's largest existing lensed telescope.

Celebrating the Swedish ship used in the first Arctic expedition to navigate through the Northeast Passage.

This building, previously used as a courthouse, has an unusual geological feature in its basement.