Places RenardLoria Wants to Go

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

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

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

The first museum in the United States dedicated entirely to posters.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A one-ton statue of Steve Rogers beautifies the entry to a Brooklyn Bed, Bath & Beyond.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

New York's oldest magic store.

This stunningly massive housing complex is a go-to filming location for dystopian sci-fi cinema.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.