Places slartibartfass13 Wants to Go

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

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

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

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

An homage to the humble watering can.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.