Places thelonesomeroad Wants to Go

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

The somewhat misnamed 'Garden of Shells' lovingly built from found objects.

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

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

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

A chaotic collection of coin-operated slot machines designed to delight and disturb in equal measure.

The 16th-century church was kept in its ruined state as a reminder of the casualties of World War I.