Places stonoceno Wants to Go

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

A unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

Bits of architecture from a town destroyed in World War I now decorate this hotel garden.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

Figures of unknown origin carved into the surfaces of underground caves.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.