Places rickklages Wants to Go

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

The twists and turns of this serpentine maze are over 170 years old.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.

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

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

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

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.