Places stonoceno Wants to Go

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

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

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

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

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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Hungarian self-built castle.