Places stonoceno Wants to Go

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

A sudden, striking cluster of hills south of Padua has been attracting visitors for centuries.

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

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

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

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

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

A collection of 4,000 thimbles that's more versatile than one might imagine.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

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

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

An early-20th-century "dacha" village of quaint cottages curiously located in a modern part of Moscow.