Places stephmcmahon Wants to Go

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

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

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

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.”

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

A cross marks the spot in a small Scottish village that claims to be the exact center of the country.