Places shbtlr Wants to Go

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.

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

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

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

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

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

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

Collection of antique science instruments displayed in recreated 1870-1930 laboratories.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.