Places shaw95 Wants to Go

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

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

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

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

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

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

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

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

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.