Places ssrismith Wants to Go

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Despite being dead since the 1970s, this Canadian tree is kept upright and intact by adoring locals.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.

Shortest overhead power line in the world.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

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

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.