Places sfmichelearmstrong Wants to Go

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

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

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

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

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.