Places rikwilliams Wants to Go

A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

An arresting arch punched straight through a mountain provides one of the most scenic spots, and challenging climbs, on the planet.

The world's largest sundial can cast a shadow more than 1,600 feet long.

The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

A much-loved local landmark pays tribute to the shipbuilding past of this area.

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

An eccentric memorial garden to the "warrior" birds of World War I, the messenger pigeons used by the Allied forces.

Nearly 2 billion seeds from 38,000 species are stored and processed at this visitable facility in a quiet corner of England.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

Now isolated, this church was once the center of a bustling village that succumbed to the Black Death.

On a remote footpath and surrounded by beautiful Sussex countryside sits Sussex’s smallest cemetery.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

An unofficial monument to the late King of Pop sits at the base of a Renaissance composer's statue

The tomb of a hard traveling saint is constantly covered in shoes as offerings to heal disabled youth.

A lasting remnant of the London Blitz.