Places theflyawaygirl Wants to Go

This gateway to subterranean Hanover plays jazz, pop and rock to surprised passersby.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

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

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Mysterious texts covered in mystical symbols were found in caves at this site centuries ago.

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

Artists made this mosque into a marvel of Ottoman baroque architecture.

One of the tallest waterfalls in Africa is also home to a population of monkeys who enjoy the waters and the occasional guest.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.